Richard Hofstadter's The Paranoid Style in American Politics, published in Harper's Magazine in 1964, is an influential scholarly essay. Its strength is that it remains the standard reference point for analyzing conspiratorial thinking in American political culture, written by a leading American historian. Its limit is the ordinary one for a single essay: it offers one framework for understanding a broad phenomenon, and later scholars have both built on and challenged it.
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Reliability tier 1: an influential scholarly essay by a leading American historian, still the standard reference point for its subject though one framework among others scholars have since built on and challenged. NotesRichard Hofstadter's influential scholarly essay on conspiratorial thinking in American politics, Harper's Magazine, 1964.
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AuthorRichard Hofstadter
PublisherHarper's Magazine
Publication Year1964
Source TypeEssay
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Secret Societies, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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