Hofstadter has been mostly discredited. Jeet Heer recently wrote an appraisal: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/richard-hofstadter-library-america-rev

Hofstadter has been mostly discredited. Jeet Heer recently wrote an appraisal: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/richard-hofstadter-library-america-review/ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/richard-hofstadter... Tom Frank's new book, "The People, No", is scathing about Hofstadter's elitism and misportrayal of the Populist movement (Hofstadter only used anti-Populist secondary sources).