It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. — Richard Hofstadter

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Mini who’s who:

Richard Hofstadter : American Historian
Born:  August 6, 1916
Died:  October 24, 1970