Richard Hofstadter

I like the historian Richard Hofstadter for many reasons but perhaps one of the reasons I found his writing to be enjoyable when I first encountered it, in addition to being informative, was slightly subversive sentences like this one which I found underlined when I was re-reading my copy of The American Political Tradition:

"When the task of conducting a presidential campaign fell upon him, Roosevelt's background of economic innocence was dappled by only occasional traces of knowledge."