American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century By Gary Gerstle Princeton University Press 454 pages, $29.95 When he was a young man during the Great Depression, Richard Hofstadter married a beautiful radical and briefly joined the Communist Party. “I hate capitalism and everything that goes with it,” he wrote to a friend. The economic crisis, he would later reflect,… return to article
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