A Hundred-Year-Old Beard
Sep 27, 2013•59 min
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Hmm - that doesn't sound very pleasant.
Actually, the Beard in question is a person, Charles Beard, and he's dead. Hmm - that doesn't sound very pleasant, either.
But it's fascinating. You see, Beard was a historian who wrote the most important book you've never heard of, "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States," published precisely a century ago, in 1913.
Beard's book has been causing academic fistfights since the day it was published, and that's why we're still talking about it a century later.
Please join historians Woody Holton and Gordon Wood for a rollicking discussion. But restrain yourself. It's just a book.
Actually, the Beard in question is a person, Charles Beard, and he's dead. Hmm - that doesn't sound very pleasant, either.
But it's fascinating. You see, Beard was a historian who wrote the most important book you've never heard of, "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States," published precisely a century ago, in 1913.
Beard's book has been causing academic fistfights since the day it was published, and that's why we're still talking about it a century later.
Please join historians Woody Holton and Gordon Wood for a rollicking discussion. But restrain yourself. It's just a book.
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