![]() ![]() Hofstadter and his wife became part of the community of Jewish intellectuals. Hofstadter also joined a Communist group at Columbia but grew disenchanted with its regimented beliefs and drifted away from the party by 1940. Felice worked for Time magazine and was immersed in the vibrant political life of the Communist Party. Hofstadter and Felice married in 1936 and had a son. ![]() ![]() She was from a prominent Buffalo Jewish family and was the sister of the poet Harvey Swados. Hofstadter went to New York City with Felice Swados, a bright fellow University of Buffalo student who later graduated from Smith College. His dissertation, Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860–1915 (1944), was published and won the American Historical Association's Albert J. He briefly attended the New York School of Law and then transferred as a history major to Columbia University, where he earned an M.A. Hofstadter was educated at the University of Buffalo, where he was mentored by the historian Julius Pratt. His mother died when he was ten, and his maternal grandmother brought him up as an Episcopalian. Hofstadter, a furrier, and a Protestant German-American mother, Katherine Hill, he was baptized a Lutheran. One of two children of a Polish-born secular Jewish father, Emil A. 24 October 1970 in New York City), cultural intellectual historian whose work in the 1960s explored conflicts both within the United States and within its historiography, and preserved the concept of free inquiry against the turmoil of the period. ![]()
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