Godfrey Hodgson (1 February 1934 – 27 January 2021) was an English journalist and historian who covered and studied American politics and civil society. As a journalist he worked across television and print, working for organizations including The Times, The Observer, Sunday Times, ITV, and Channel 4 News. As an author, he wrote extensively on American society, politics, and values in books including American Melodrama (1969), America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon (1976), World Turned Right Side Up (1996) and More Equal Than Others (2004). Through his work he covered America from the 1960s through the 2000s, spanning the civil rights movement, establishment of the liberal consensus, and the rising global and domestic conservatism. He had degrees from University of Oxford and Uni