This book gathers together Beard-centered essays by men who were leaders in Beard's several fields of activity or men whose association with Beard gave them competence to speak about his personal qualities to present a composite picture.
A specialist in the Reconstruction era and American foreign policy in the early 20th century, Howard Kennedy Beale earned his PhB in English from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and Ph.D, from Harvard University. Beale taught at the University of North Carolina from 1935 until 1948, and at the University of Wisconsin from 1948 until his death in 1959.
"The memorial volume on the Revisionist whom even critics concede is the likeliest candidate for the title: greatest American historian of this century. This is not a traditional festschrift; a massive volume along that line had been planned as early as 1939, but because of Beard's foreign policy views and World War II Revisionism, many scholars and friends deserted him and the project."