Anti‑Scientific Americans: The Prevalence, Origins, and Political Consequences of Anti-Intellectualism in the US
Matthew Motta
Anti‑intellectualism has long been a powerful force in Amerian political life. It has also regularly been the subject of both scholarly and public interest. In Anti-Scientific Americans, Matthew Motta revives Richard Hofstadter’s pioneering insights from the 1960s on the subject and offers new theoretical and data-driven insights.
Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionAnti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in Amerian life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.