About this title: Hofstadter writes of the compromises and what he sees as lapses in principle on the part of the founding fathers as well as by Jefferson, Jackson, Calhoun, Lincoln, Wendell Phillips, William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Hoover, and FDR. Originally published in 1948, this classic study of figures in American politics represented a ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780679723158ISBN:0679723153
Description: Acceptable. Corners rubbed. Cover creased. Curl to front cover. Highlighting. Pages yellowed from age. Previous owner's name inside front cover. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Vintage Books V-9
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: A. A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1948
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Normal shelf wear to covers. A very small amount of highlighting to the first few pages. Otherwise internally clean. xi, 378, xviii p.; 22 cm. read more
Publisher: Random House Vintage V9, NY
Date Published: 1948
Description: red, white, blue cover art. Good+Cond, Pencil underlining, some paper tanning. 4x7" Paper Covers 381+ps FOUNDING FATHERS, JEFFERSON, ANDREW JACKSON, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THEODORE ROOSEVELT; WOODROw WILSON, HERBERT HOOVER. incexed. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Good. Softcovers lightly rubbed and edgeworn. Interior very good, crisp and clean. A good reading/working copy.; 12mo 7"-7½" tall. read more
Binding: Paper
Publisher: Vintage, New York
Date Published: 1948
Description: Cover Art. Good. No Jacket. Vintage Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Cover price 1.65---------#V9-------The cover has some shelf wear and the pages has yellowing.... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780679723158ISBN:0679723153
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Pristine condition unused and unmarked book. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 560 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Later Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf, New York, New York
Date Published: 1962
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Ex. Lib. 5 3/4" X 8 1/2" 378 pp + Index. Clean; used gently. Front hinge loosening ever so slightly. Tape stains on first end papers. Flap material cut out and pasted on 2nd end paper. Usual library markings, stamps; name plate on inside front cover; card pocket on inside back cover; bar code on last end paper. Red cloth boards are very good with a little scuffing on edges. DJ is taped to book; copy material cut out. Call number taped to spine; bar code on back cover. read more
Edition: Later Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf, New York, New York
Date Published: 1962
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Ex. Lib. 5 3/4" X 8 1/2" 378 pp + Index. Clean; used gently. Front hinge loosening ever so slightly. Tape stains on first end papers. Flap material cut out and pasted on 2nd end paper. Usual library markings, stamps; name plate on inside front cover; card pocket on inside back cover; bar code on last end paper. Red cloth boards are very good with a little scuffing on edges. DJ is taped to book; copy material cut out. Call number taped to spine; bar code on back cover. read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1954
Description: Acceptable. PAPERBACK, third printing 1955, creasing to cover, edges rubbed, spine worn and torn, cover tanned, foxing to text block. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1989-04-01
ISBN-13:9780679723158ISBN:0679723153
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780679723158. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780679723158ISBN:0679723153
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: First Paperback
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage, New York
Date Published: 1948
Description: Very Good. No Jacket (as issued) 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. An interpretation of American politics & politicians through 12 incisive biographical portraits, from the Founding Fathers to FDR, and an explanation of America's national nostalgia. Softcover, spine v sl creased, covers crisp, interior clean & tight, pages tanning. read more
"A beautifully written book that is heavy on analysis and opinion and light on historical research. Histories of this sort are fun to read, but I doubt there was ever any reason to write them (other than to pass the time, which is an excellent reason to do anything). You'll walk away from TAPT with a lot of talking points about important American politicians that subsequent historians have qualified into irrelevance in the fifty years since its publication."
"I think I read this in college so I definitely read it before 1989.
Then, I was visiting a friend while on vacation from college, and I met his nephew and we went out and partied, once I got over that I was going with Richard Hofstadter's nephew and his wife."
"Sophomore year, Political Science 201....the beginning of pulling down the curtain and seeing the wizard was only a white racist, and not that nice man who we thought was always telling us the truth."
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