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A detailed look at the ideas and contributions of the 3 major interpretive historians of the U.S. in the 20th century: Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and V. L. Parrington.
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This splendid book, by another teacher of mine, one of the most influential 20th-century historians of the United States, takes up the works of three similarly prominent early 20th-century historians: Charles A. Beard, Frederick Jackson Turner, and Vernon L. Parrington. Their books, too, make rewarding reading, even though time may have left their interpretations in the dustāBeardās on the Constitution being, writes Hofstadter, an āimposing ruin.ā Turnerās on the frontier and Parringtonās on American thought are also mostly ignored by historians today. So why bother with them? Because they can still be read for what they coverāthe creationā¦
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