The Paranoid Style in American Politics, and Other Essays

ISBN-10
0226348172
ISBN-13
9780226348179
Category
Political Science
Pages
314
Language
English
Published
1979
Author
Richard Hofstadter

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"The distinguishing thing about the paranoid style is not that its exponents see conspiracies or plots here and there in history, but that they regard a vast' or gigantic' conspiracy as the "motive force" in historical events...The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of this conspiracy in apocalyptic terms--he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization." --From the book

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