tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22295383.post-19007454290832642102008-04-29T21:06:00.000-05:002008-04-29T21:06:00.000-05:00And besides, Hofstadter is really important in the very long run, and Brown's book is not. <BR/><BR/>We need to get over the intellectual petrification that enfranchises a biography as narrowly conceived as this one. That reanimation will let us see that he speaks across almost every line of discipline and field, so that just Americanists--just us--aren't his only audience.<BR/><BR/>And may I say, in almost apology, that it took me many years to understand what the man was up to.jameslivingston49@hotmail.comwww.politicsandletters.comnoreply@blogger.com