...Frances Acomb Woman as Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities . By Beard Mary R. . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1946 . Pp. 369 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 146 The South Atlantic Quarterly artist will not begin anew; he...

...John Braeman The Historian as Activist: Charles A. Beard and the New Deal John Braeman Charles A. Beard was probably the most influential and widely read American historian of the twentieth century. Lewis Mumford acknowl­ edged him in 1945 as the most powerful single figure in the teaching...

...Harlan B. Phillips CHARLES BEARD, WALTER VROOMAN, AND THE FOUNDING OF RUSKIN HALL HARLAN B. PHILLIPS WHEN CHARLES BEARD came to Oxford in the fall of 1899 to undertake a course of advanced study in history, no one anticipated his enlistment in the Social Gospel. Charles had been brought up by his...

...David W. Noble Turner and Beard: American Historical Writing Reconsidered . By Benson Lee . Glencoe, Ill. : The Free Press , 1960 . Pp. xiii , 241 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 276 The South Atlantic Quarterly in such limited compass, the book...

...Louis J. Budd The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper . Edited by Beard James Franklin . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1960 . Vol. I , pp. xlv , 445 ; Vol. II , pp. viii , 420 . $20.00 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Book Reviews 105...

...Harold T. Parker 116 The South Atlantic Quarterly Charles Beard and the Constitution: A Critical Analysis of An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. By Robert E. Brown. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954. Pp. vi, 219. $3.50. In 1913 William K. Boyd observed in the South Atlantic...

...Louis J. Budd The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper . Edited by Beard James Franklin . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1968 . Vol. V , pp. xi , 418 ; Vol. VI , pp. ix , 460 . $27.50 . Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Book Reviews 119...

...Robert O. Tilman Birds’ Nests in Their Beards . By Stevenson William . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1963 . Pp. xii , 280 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Book Reviews 449 widens his coverage, and perhaps his category, by providing a descriptive...

.... Originally planned as a conventional appraisal and a sequel to the author s earlier volume on the New Deal, it inevi­ tably ran afoul of the revisionism of Charles A. Beard, the Chicago Tribune school, and some others. Rauch became convinced that their thesis, that the President plotted to carry...

..., and Thorstein Veblen, who added historical evolutionism to economic theory. The historians who best epitomized the revolt against formalism were James Harvey Robinson, author of the influential essays, The New History (1912), and Charles A. Beard, fresh from his adventures with the British Labour party and his...

... friendship with Charles Beard, exposed in compendious detail the sor­ didness of post-Civil War political life. Published in 1938, four years after the appearance of his best-selling Robber Barons, it soon became the standard work in its field, and its major interpretations were widely incorporated...

... history and Indian-lore in a most fascinating way. I really think it is worthy of your attention and encouragement. Within a few years, other youth groups similar to the Woodcraft Indians, includ­ ing Daniel Beard s Sons of Daniel Boone and the Boys Brigades, also appeared.14 The youth camping movement...

... the grave. The younger historians who rejected class and economic anal­ yses bore down upon the giant of the economic determinists Charles Beard, whose once rebellious books such as An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913) had affected high school as well as college texts during the New Deal...

... ineptitude placed a premium on staying put. And finally, this reader is wary of any author who employs that fatally easy generalization, the military mind. DUKE UNIVERSITY I. B. HOLLEY, JR. Turner and Beard: American Historical Writing Reconsidered. By Lee Benson. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1960. Pp...

... Alexis de Tocqueville References Arendt Hannah . (1963) 1990 . On Revolution . New York : Penguin . Aristotle . (1962) 1992 . The Politics , translated by Sinclair T. A. , revised and re-presented by Trevor J. Saunders . Harmondsworth, UK : Penguin . Beard...

... to oversimplification or a mild distortion. What would the late Charles A. Beard, for example, have thought of Pressly s statement that in Beard s pages the Southern planters very nearly became the heroes of the narrative, and Beard very nearly became the ally of John C. Calhoun? The interpretations here analyzed run...

... Thoughts about an Alternative. By William Appleman Williams. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 229. $14.95. William Appleman Williams resembles no one so much as the late Charles A. Beard in the popularity of his writing, in the single-minded nature of it, in physical appearance (Uncle Charley...

... widens his coverage, and perhaps his category, by providing a descriptive list of other little and some not-so-little magazines. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL H. K. RUSSELL Birds Nests in Their Beards. By William Stevenson. Boston: Hough­ ton Mifflin Company, 1963. Pp. xii, 280. $4.50. Under...

... Copyright © 1914 by Duke University Press 1914 BOOK REVIEWS Contemporary American History, 1877-1913. By Charles A. Beard. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. In common with most teachers of American history and government Professor Beard has found among students an astonishing amount...

..., yet managed to produce the art he most admires and to play most admirably the role of the artist as described by James the lonely old artist man. Ashbel G. Brice. Woman as Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities. By Mary R. Beard. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. Pp. 369. $3.50...