Books

A One-Man Think Tank

Kevin Mattson

Richard Hofstadter An Intellectual Biography David S. Brown University of Chicago Press, $27.50, 282 pp.    History is one of the few scholarly pursuits that garners popular attention. Among the ranks of its practitioners are bestselling authors with fans who avidly follow their careers—cheering the latest long ball struck by David McCullough, for instance, or the (...)


 

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