PIONEER ON POLITICS
Coleman, Mcalister
Pioneer On Politics Charles Beard's Economic Approach THE ECONOMIC BASIS OF POLITICS, by Charles A. Beard. Alfred A. Knopf. $1.75. Revieioed I McAlister Coleman IN this little book of 114...
...For those who want between covers the clues towards the economic interpretation' of history so that all our past takes on new meaning, the book is indispensable...
...Those who first looked into Dr...
...tral questions of our times...
...with the doctrine of political equality...
...The new chapter is a priceless summation of the workings of one of our noblest minds on,the cen...
...The body of the book deals with the doctrines of the philosophers who were thinking about means with which to "control our social destiny for noble ends...
...This body is a reprint of four lectures delivered at Amherst College on the Clark Foundation in 1916, and revised and published in 1922...
...with the structures of various states in relation to their economic groups...
...and the contradictions in modern democracy...
...I especially recommend its analysis of the Soviet economy...
...Revieioed I McAlister Coleman IN this little book of 114 pages, the dean of American historians presents again the gist of his pioneering thought which blazed so many pathways in the latter-day writing of American history, and, as an added gift, writes a long concluding chapter on economics and politics in our "Revolutionary Age...
...Beard's masterly Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy in 1915 and his studies on the economic roots of the Constitution, and realized that here was a daring and original approach which was bound to revolutionize the writing of our history, will get this new and enlarged edition as a refresher and will turn eagerly to the last chapter to find how Beard is looking at the confusion of the world of 1945...
Vol. 9 • October 1945 • No. 43
