The Populist Interpretation of American History: A Materialist Revision

‘Traditions of American “Democracy”’ by Fedor Kapelusz

“…Beard 1913, p. 6. The towering influence of the Progressive-era historian (and that of the Beardian view in general) waned with the Cold War, only upheld by New Left historians such as Lynd (Lynd 1963) who, however, added the criticism that Beard minimised the significance of slavery, the Abolitionist struggle, exalting instead the frontier Populist (see also Gaido 2001). McCorkle (McCorkle 1984) argues that Beard's historical works before 1918 have been widely misunderstood, that they were in fact written from a pro-Constitutional, pro-Federalist, Hamiltonian viewpoint -perhaps a sign that Beard again becomes respectable.…”

La democracia des-mediada. Corrupción y democracia en la modernidad

“…Esto es, aunque el problema de las facciones no pueda limitarse a lo económico, tampoco puede circunscribirse a lo político. Véase también la visión de Gaido (2001).…”