The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter #literature ’ John Cherry

’ John Cherry

Destined to become a modern classic

And then there’s Fliss

once gifts fit for emperors and tsars

It was her coverage of the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961

The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter #literature ’ John CherryThe classic and very funny account of the dark side of American politics. Calm, clear, dispassionate and devastating and a joy to read Harper's Brilliant and influential his evisceration of populism has found a new generation of readers Guardian American political life has served again and again as an arena for uncommonly angry minds How can a country be captured by rumours, surreal conspiracy theories and the most brazen of conmen? The historian