Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Charles A. Beard
Born: November 27, 1874
Died: September 1, 1948 (aged 73)
Bio: Charles Austin Beard was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century.
Known for:
- Economic Origins Of Jeffersonian Democracy (1915)
- The Economic Basis of Politics (1922)
- An introduction to the English historians (1906)