Charles A. Beard: An Intellectual Biography - Hardcover

Nore, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809310783 ISBN 13: 9780809310784

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983

Synopsis

This is the first book to bring together into a coherent whole the fragments of the life and thought of Charles A. Beard, a historian who took active steps to thwart biography by burning his private correspondence.

 

Nore has written about Beard’s early life in Indiana, including his family tradi­tions and his formal education. She tells of his experiences in England and at Co­lumbia University as both student and teacher. She delineates his progressivism and his economic approach to consti­tutions, parties, and politics. She chroni­cles his response to war and traces his journeys to the Orient.

 

Other chapters include History, Civi­lization, and Abundance”; An Intel­lectual Dairy Farmer’s Public Life”; The Great Depression: Modern Analysis and Victorian Politics”; Science, Relativity, and Faith”; Battle for Nonintervention, 1935 1941”; The Old Isolationist”; and Lessons of Pearl Harbor.”

 

In tracing the intellectual development of this charismatic man of Quaker heri­tage, this man who knew almost from the beginning that authorities outside the in­dividual conscience must be carefully scrutinized, Nore sheds light on the in­tellectual history of the 20th century. Hers is the authoritative biography of the man who continued to remind Ameri­cans that the achievement of economic and social, as well as political democracy would depend on the quality and quan­tity of individual critical citizenships.”

About this title

About the Author:

Ellen Nore is a faculty member in the Department of History at Southern Illi­nois University Edwardsville.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0809310783
• ISBN 13: 9780809310784
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336