Anti-intellectualism in American Life is a book by Richard Hofstadter published in 1963 that won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
First edition
Protestantism is the largest grouping of Christians in the United States, with its combined denominations comprising about 43% of the country's population in 2019. Other estimates suggest that 48.5% o
Anti-intellectualism in American Life
…these themes as historically embedded in America's national fabric, resulting from its colonial and evangelical Protestant heritage. He contended that evangelical American Protestantism's anti-intellectual tradition valued the spirit over intellectual rigor. Hofstadter described anti-intellectualism as "resentment of the life of the…
Pilgrims Going to Church, an 1867 portrait of Puritans in the New England colonies by George Henry Boughton
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Frederick, Maryland, built in 1752
Baptism at Northolt Park Baptist Church