cover image Social Darwinism in American Thought

Social Darwinism in American Thought

Richard Hofstadter. Beacon Press, $25 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-8070-5503-8

The much-honored late historian Hofstadter inaugurated the study of social Darwinism in his 1944 Ph.D. thesis, reprinted here with an introduction by noted contemporary historian Foner. (Sept.)