An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution Paperback 1616192070 9781616192075 Charles A. Beard

from IFREF

A very old book that had an intro full of a kind of pre-Communist Socialist thinking; wasn't too sure I wanted to wade through that. Didn't finish.

from ORFisHome

A very old book that had an intro full of a kind of pre-Communist Socialist thinking; wasn't too sure I wanted to wade through that. Didn't finish.

from SGTCat

My rating is probably partially the result of the fact that the copy I read, the Kindle eBook copy, was horribly formatted. It was a straight-up scan, with footnotes mixed directly into the text and no spacing between chapter titles, subsections and the text itself. It was very difficult to read,...

from patito-de-hule

Beard's 1913 history is a classic of historical revisionism. The author puts down his thesis that the context of the constitution is to be found in economic phenomena. It was a fad in all history at that time, and the book is now very dated.

from jcvogan1

Seems a rather obvious argument today that is made in excessive detail, but it was quite controversial when it was published. Still, the delegate by delegate asset summaries could have been shortened.