"The Paranoid Style in American Politics" is an essay by American historian Richard Hofstadter, first published in Harper's Magazine in November 1964. It was the title essay in a book by the author th
The cover of the first book edition, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1965
Anti-intellectualism in American Life is a book by Richard Hofstadter published in 1963 that won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
…approach to politics". In 2020, the Library of America re-issued "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" alongside other Hofstadter's essays, such as "Anti-intellectualism in American Life", as part of a volume edited by Princeton historian Sean Wilentz. Journalists continue to draw on the essay to analyze 21st-century public affairs…
First edition