The American Political Tradition : And the Men Who Made it (Paperback)

from stillatim

Hofstadter writes very well and makes big claims, which is a pleasant change from a lot of contemporary history. The book's general thesis - that the American Political Tradition is by and large an...

from Brent.Hall

I read this book in my AP U.S. History class in H.S., was the first book to whet my appetite for politics.

from antiquary

A study of American political philosophy in the lives of those who made it, including Jefferson, Jackson, Calhoun, Lincoln, Wendell Philips, Cleveland, Bryan, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Wilso...

from bfertig

Brilliant but tedious. To be fair, I did have to read this for school. I might actually like it now... though who knows. This is so densely written it's hard to take it all in at once. I would prob...

from SandSing7

Hofstadter's tone is at times a bit - I would go so far to say - obnoxious in the way that he presents himself and his arguments in an overly self-important light. Perhaps when the book was first p...