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Richard Drake has written more than a biography of Charles Beard, rather an intellectual history. I don't think anyone will ever do the Beard story as well as Drake. -- Lloyd Gardner, Professor Emeritus of History, Rutgers University, and author of <I>Road to Tahrir Square: Egypt and the United States from the Rise of Nasser to the Fall of Mubarak</I> Charles Beard was a fascinating thinker and historian, and deserves the scholarly attention given to him by Richard Drake. Drake's book provides an important service in reintroducing us to Beard the antiimperialist, a needed return. -- Andrew Hartman, Professor of History, Illinois State University, and author of <I>A War for the Soul of America</I>

An incisive view of the power of Beard, and a sense of his intellectual origins.... Drake's worthy volume seeks to take full measure of Charles Beard's contribution to the scholarship of American history. -- Paul Buhle * The Progressive * An estimable study.... Drake's fine book... performs an important service. It invites readers to do what Beard himself strove to do as he kept close watch on events during the 1930s and 1940s: to remain alert to hypocrisy and contradiction contributing to the misuse of American power. In an era awash with fake news, the handiwork not only of policymakers but of the media itself, this task becomes more important than ever. -- Andrew Bacevich * The American Conservative * An unfolding account of [Charles Austin Beard's] ideas and arguments.... The cold, hard face of Charles Austin Beard peers from the front cover of Mr. Drake's biography, as if from the other side of a tinted glass. His is a strong, hard visage, that of a man who long ago had made up his own mind about the world and America's limited place in it. * Wall Street Journal *

It is a brave and much needed redemption of Beard, and a retrieval of intellectual history in the 20th Century, without falling into traps of over-simplification, or over-sympathy for its subject. -- Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University, and author of <I>Road to Tahrir Square</I> Beard's oeuvre should be made whole again in the canons of American intellectual history. This book will be a major step in that direction. Moreover, Richard Drake has broad theoretical, literary, and historiographical range that makes him a master intellectual historian. More people need to read him and this book is a great place to start. -- Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University, and author of <I>A War for the Soul of America</I>

It is a brave and much needed redemption of Beard, and a retrieval of intellectual history in the 20th Century, without falling into traps of over-simplification, or over-sympathy for its subject. -- Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University, and author of <I>Road to Tahrir Square</I> Beard's oeuvre should be made whole again in the canons of American intellectual history. This book will be a major step in that direction. Moreover, Richard Drake has broad theoretical, literary, and historiographical range that makes him a master intellectual historian. More people need to read him and this book is a great place to start. -- Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University, and author of <I>A War for the Soul of America</I> An estimable study.... Drake's fine book... performs an important service. It invites readers to do what Beard himself strove to do as he kept close watch on events during the 1930s and 1940s: to remain alert to hypocrisy and contradiction contributing to the misuse of American power. In an era awash with fake news, the handiwork not only of policymakers but of the media itself, this task becomes more important than ever. -- Andrew Bacevich * The American Conservative * An incisive view of the power of Beard, and a sense of his intellectual origins.... Drake's worthy volume seeks to take full measure of Charles Beard's contribution to the scholarship of American history. -- Paul Buhle * The Progressive *

An incisive view of the power of Beard, and a sense of his intellectual origins. Drake's worthy volume seeks to take full measure of Charles Beard's contribution to the scholarship of American history. * The Progressive * An estimable study. Drake's fine book performs an important service. It invites readers to do what Beard himself strove to do as he kept close watch on events during the 1930s and 1940s: to remain alert to hypocrisy and contradiction contributing to the misuse of American power. In an era awash with fake news, the handiwork not only of policymakers but of the media itself, this task becomes more important than ever. * The American Conservative * An unfolding account of [Charles Austin Beard's] ideas and arguments. The cold, hard face of Charles Austin Beard peers from the front cover of Mr. Drake's biography, as if from the other side of a tinted glass. His is a strong, hard visage, that of a man who long ago had made up his own mind about the world and America's limited place in it. * Wall Street Journal * Drake's book is to be recommended for historians of the interwar period in the United States, the 1930s, and the intellectual history of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as anyone interested in the range of historiographical thought in American history. Drake breaks new ground in showing Beard's relationship to European social thought, as well as Beard's friendship with Herbert Hoover in the later 1930s it will likely remain a standard work for many years to come, one that anyone interested in Charles Beard should not pass over. * H-Net * Drake has written a straightforward account of Beard's rise and fall. The book excels at showing how Beard's understanding of American history. * The Journal of American History *

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Richard Drake is the Lucile Speer Research Chair in Politics and History at the University of Montana. He has published several books, including The Education of an Anti-Imperialist.

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