Richard Drake presents a new interpretation of Charles Austin
Beard's life and work. The foremost American historian and a
leading public intellectual in the first half of the twentieth
century, Beard participated actively in the debates about American
politics and foreign policy surrounding the two world wars. In a
radical change of critical focus, Charles Austin Beard places the
European dimension of Beard's thought at the center, correcting
previous biographers' oversights and presenting a far more nuanced
appreciation for Beard's life. Drake analyzes the stages of Beard's
development as a historian and critic: his role as an intellectual
leader in the Progressive movement, the support that he gave to the
cause of American intervention in World War I, and his subsequent
revisionist repudiation of Wilsonian ideals and embrace of
non-interventionism in the lead-up to World War II. Charles Austin
Beard shows that, as Americans tally the ruinous costs—both
financial and moral—of nation-building and informal empire, the
life and work of this prophet of history merit a thorough
reexamination.
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