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Author Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970.

Title The progressive historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington.

Publication Info. New York : Knopf, 1968.

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  920    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.07 H67    Check Shelf
Edition [First edition].
Description xvii, 498, xiii pages : portraits ; 22 cm
Bibliography "Bibliographical essay": pages 467-498.
Contents Part I. The Background -- 1. Historical Writing Before Turner -- Part II. Frederick Jackson Turner -- 2. Turner and the Western Revolt -- 3. Frontier and Section and the Usable Past -- 4. The Frontier as an Explanation -- Part III. Charles A. Beard -- 5. Beard and the Progressive Mind -- 6. The Constitution as an Economic Document -- 7. The Constitution and Political Thought -- 8. Reconsiderations -- 9. The Devil Theory of Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Part IV. V.L. Parrington -- 10. Economics and Criticism -- 11. Criticism and Political Thought -- Part V. The Aftermath -- 12. Conflict and Consensus in American History
Subject Historians -- United States -- Biography.
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932.
Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948.
Parrington, Vernon Louis, 1871-1929.
United States -- Historiography.
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