M & D Read (related): Order of the Illuminati,

[Mark Kohut]

mkazin, son of Alfred Kazin, On Native Grounds and a leading historian
replying to a New Republic guy--a Canadian!--who believes Hofstadter
is 'history' so to speak. Kazin's own piece is more careful and reads
very intelligently to me...(I can't believe as is said that no one
reads ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN AMERICAN LIFE any more as I just did and
found it
as telling as 2 by 4. )
@mkazin
Replying to @HeerJeet
Twitter isn't the place to debate this -- but Hof was quite wise about
political culture and the fact we are still taking his work seriously
says something about the quality of his provocations. I wrote this
piece in 1999: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/29097

About the biography of Hof:
"Intelligent and stimulating... Brown admirably balances respect for
his subject with critical distance and persuasively makes the case
that the ambiguousness of Hofstadter's legacy is inseparable from his
continuing interest.... At his best, Hofstadter remains vitally alive
and endlessly instructive." - Sam Tanenhaus, New York Times Book
Review "In this illuminating biography... [Brown] freshens the
worn-out chronicle of postwar Upper West Side intelligentsia by
retelling it from Hofstadter's playful, eternally skeptical, oddly
uninflammatory point of view.... Above all, Brown helps readers assess
Hofstadter as a member of a generation of American historians every
bit as important as (and in some respects more so than) the well-known
Progressive generation of Charles Beard, Frederick Jackson Turner, and
Vernon Parrington." - Sean Wilentz, New Republic"

On 1/27/18, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Founded, Germany, two months before the American colonies declared
> independence.
> 1797, former French JESUIT Augustine de Barruel published Memoirs
> Illustrating the History of Jacobinism.
>
> a themed quote:
> "Rooting out all the religious establishments and overturning all the
> existing governments of Europe"
>
> "These allegations...which won the praise of Edmund Burke [no less]
> quickly found their way to the United States, Pres of Yale for one."
>
> "For much of the 19 Th & 20th Centuries, the ILLUMINATI played an
> unintended role as Ur-conspirators in what Richard Hofstadter called
> the @ paranoid style in AMERICAN POLITICS. ...defending the
> dispossessed against a vast conspiratorial network'"
>                                                              --
> From Niall Ferguson's new book.
>
> Later he writes about how the conspiracy notions are still kept
> alive....via John Birch Society and Jerry Falwell's book (or another
> like him, cant remember)...
>
> Remember that the John Birch Society appears fictionalized in Lot 49.......
>
> And, that Trystero...let's talk about IT again, what say?
>
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