Quote of the day
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
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)