VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, FEBRUARY
1973

Copyright © 1971 by Beatrice K. Hofstadter, Executrix of the Estate of Richard Hofstadter

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in September 1971.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Hofstadter, Richard, 1916–1970.
      America at 1750.
      1. United States—Social conditions—To 1855.
I. Title.
[HN57.H545 1973]    309.1′73′026    72–8008
eISBN: 978-0-307-80965-0

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