Making the Case for an Early Victim of Cancel Culture

There is a noble quality to this biography of Charles Austin Beard, as it speaks for a stubborn thinker and scholar who managed to alienate those on the left and right alike.

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Junius Brutus Stearns, 'Washington at Constitutional Convention of 1787, signing of U.S. Constitution,' detail. Via Wikimedia Commons

‘Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism’
By Richard Drake
Cornell University Press, 336 pages

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