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Practicality is not the essence of the intellectual's interest in ideas
Drawn from what Richard Hofstadter said
What Richard Hofstadter actually said
- Richard Hofstadter Historian (1916 to 1970) whose Anti-Intellectualism…
However, practicality is not the essence of his interest in ideas.
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↗Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Knopf, 1963)archive.org
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