FTP, name this book about America's distrust of higher education by Richard Hofstadter.
This work cites the quote "God is a twenty-four hour station. All you need is to do is plug it in." to analyze how technical vocabulary is invading religious self-help books, in a chapter about "spiritual technology." The author describes how the rise of the machine industry created a line of demarcation designating everything as either "utilitarian" or "traditional" in a section entitled "The Decline of the Gentleman." One chapter of this work uses the term "mugwump culture" to refer to an attitude valuing respectability over originality, explaining why second-rate writers like Bryant, Lowell, and Whittier were preferred over Whitman and Poe. This book analyzes the "cult of experience" to explain why businesses prefer self-made men rather than educated men in its fourth part "The Practical Culture." The second part, "The Religion of the Heart," argues that Puritanism was replaced by evangelical religion and Jacksonian egalitarianism, which are two causes of the title suspicion. Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction, its author followed with the book The Paranoid Style in American Politics. FTP, name this book about America's distrust of higher education by Richard Hofstadter.
This work cites the quote "God is a twenty-four hour station.
{Anti}-{Intellectualism} in American {Life}