Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Rejecting his earlier historical materialist approach to history, in the 1950s he came closer to the concept of "consensus history", and was epitomized by some of his admirers as the "iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus." Others see in his work an early critique of the one-dimensional society, as Hofstadter was equally critical of socialist and capitalist models of society, and bemoaned the "consensus" within the society as "bounded by the horizons of property and entrepreneurship", criticizing the "hegemonic liberal capitalist culture running throughout the course of American history".

6 August 1916

Born on the same birth date (6 August 1916): Dom Mintoff

Born on the same birth day (6 August): A. G. Kripal Singh • Barbara Cooney • Bobby Petta • Helen Jacobs • Howard Hodgkin • Jess Collins • Johann Bernoulli • Jon Postel • Luciano Zavagno • Norman Gordon • Norman Wexler • Renate Götschl • Richard Bennett (governor) • Thomas Alexander Browne

Born in the same month (August 1916): C. Wright Mills • Daniel Schorr • Edward Pinkowski • Hélène Baillargeon • Iggy Katona • Jack Vance • John S. Wold • Johnny Claes • Kermit Love • Moses Majekodunmi • Shailendra (lyricist) • Shakeel Badayuni • Wellington Mara