Historian (6-Aug-1916 — 24-Oct-1970)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Susan Stout Baker. Radical Beginnings: Richard Hofstadter and the 1930s. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1985. 268pp.

David S. Brown. Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006. 320pp.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

7. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.550)

8. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.336)

9. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.317)

10. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.721)

11. Webster's American Biographies (p.495)

12. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.336)

13. World Authors 1950-1970 (pp.658-60)

14. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.478)

15. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.341)

16. Public Intellectuals: A Study in Decline (p.199)

17. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.112)

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