You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

These historians were led by Charles A. They collaborated on many works of history including the popular survey The Beards' Basic History of the United States. Beard's last work President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War (1948) blamed Roosevelt for lying to the American people and tricking them into war.

His works included a radical re-evaluation of the founding fathers of the United States who he believed were motivated more by economics than by philosophical principles. Beard's most influential book written with his wife Mary Beard was the wide-ranging and bestselling The Rise of American Civilization (1927) which had a major influence on American historians. ".