It was not for nothing that the late Richard Hofstadter called Calhoun "the Marx of the master class." Harry V. Jaffa Senior Fellow Claremont Institute Montclair, Calif.
Born in New York, Hofstadter graduated from City College of New York and received a master's and doctorate from Princeton University.
Mr. Condit fills a vacancy left by Robert Hofstadter's retirement to director emeritus.