Charles Austin Beard : the return of the master historian of American imperialism
Richard Drake (Author)
"In the face of the ruinous costs of empire, about which Charles Austin Beard warned at the time of the Second World War, the life and work of this American prophet merit reexamination today"-- Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2018
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2018
Biographies
xviii, 315 pages ; 24 cm
9781501715167, 9781501770173, 150171516X, 1501770179
1028884798
Introduction : the Beardian interpretation of American history
Discovering the economic taproot of imperialism
Two contrasting progressive views of the Great War
Becoming a revisionist
Washington and Wall Street working together for war
Isolationism versus internationalism
A wartime trilogy
Waging war for the four freedoms
Beard finds an ally in Herbert Hoover
Attacking "the Saint"
Defending Beard after the fall
Beard's philosophy of history and American imperialism
Conclusion : the sad historian of the pensive plain