Description
The first edition of A Foreign Policy for America by Charles A. Beard, in the publisher’s scarce dust jacket.
Octavo, [11], 154pp, vii, [1]. Black cloth, embossed lines on cover, title stamped in gilt on spine. Stated “first edition” on copyright page. Offsetting to endpapers, light dust along text block, solid binding. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $1.50 on front flap, foxing to verso, bright illustrations. Scarce in dust jacket.
The author of this work, Charles A. Beard, was an author, professor at Columbia University and controversial historian. He wrote extensively on the founding fathers, his most notable work being An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913). Beard reinterpreted popular historical narratives through an economic lens, leading to great controversy about his conclusions. Beard died in 1948.
