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

The American Political Tradition is one of the very most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. Initial released in 1948, its style, enthusiasm, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a completely new knowledge of the American previous. By composing a ‘kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics,’ Richard Hofstadter transformed the way Americans understand the partnership between power and suggestions in their national experience. Like only a handful of American historians before him-Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles A. Beard are examples-Hofstadter could articulate, in one work, a historical vision that inspired and shaped a whole generation.