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Charles A. Beard and American Foreign Policy

Charles A. Beard and American Foreign Policy

By Thomas C. Kennedy

University of Florida Press, 1975, 199 pp.

Charles Beard (1874-1948) was one of the most prolific, influential, and controversial American historians of the first half of the twentieth century. This excellent study traces the development of Beard's vehement critique of American foreign policy in general and that of Franklin D. Roosevelt in particular.