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In other works, Hofstadter described American politics as essentially irrationally motivated. In ''The Idea of a Party System'', Hofstadter described the origins of the [[First Party System]] in America as being driven by an irrational fear that one of the two major parties hoped to destroy the republic. Hofstadter planned to write a major three-volume history of American politics, but at his death had only partially completed the first volume (later published as ''America in 1750'').  

In other works, Hofstadter described American politics as essentially irrationally motivated. In ''The Idea of a Party System'', Hofstadter described the origins of the [[First Party System]] in America as being driven by an irrational fear that one of the two major parties hoped to destroy the republic. Hofstadter planned to write a major three-volume history of American politics, but at his death had only partially completed the first volume (later published as ''America in 1750'').  

==Conservative==

==Conservative==

As Brown (2006) shows, he had become more conservative in the wake of the radical sit-in and temporary closing of Columbia university in 1968.  His friend [[David Herbert Donald]] recalled, "he was appalled by the growing radical, even revolutionary sentiment that he sensed among his colleagues and his students.  He could never share their simplistic, moralistic approach."<ref> quoted in Brown (2006) p. 180</ref>  But others noted that, during and after the events of '68, he invited his students in to talk with him about their political goals and strategies, and invited one of the radical students, Mike Wallace, to collaborate with him on a history of violence in the US. In the words of his student [[Eric Foner]],  Hofstadter and Wallace's ''American Violence: A Documentary History'' "utterly contradicted the consensus vision of a nation placidly evolving without serious disagreements." ''American Violence'' was the last book Hofstadter published before he died in 1970.

As Brown (2006) shows, he had become more conservative in the wake of the radical sit-in and temporary closing of Columbia university in 1968.  His friend [[David Herbert Donald]] recalled, "he was appalled by the growing radical, even revolutionary sentiment that he sensed among his colleagues and his students.  He could never share their simplistic, moralistic approach."<ref> quoted in Brown (2006) p. 180</ref>  At his death he had just published the first of a three-volume synthesis of American social history, based on the latest research in the new field of the "[[New Social History]]."

 

== Published works ==

== Published works ==

* "The Tariff Issue on the Eve of the Civil War," ''The American Historical Review'' Vol. 44, No. 1 (Oct., 1938), pp. 50-55 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28193810%2944%3A1%3C50%3ATTIOTE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B full text in JSTOR]

* "The Tariff Issue on the Eve of the Civil War," ''The American Historical Review'' Vol. 44, No. 1 (Oct., 1938), pp. 50-55 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28193810%2944%3A1%3C50%3ATTIOTE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B full text in JSTOR]