{"product_id":"2026100008177-secondhand-the-progressive-historians-turner-beard-parrington","title":"The Progressive Historians: Turner\/Beard\/Parrington","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: Worn\/faded - no tears; clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Intact. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of history and intellectual biography, Richard Hofstadter's The Progressive Historians presents a masterful examination of three towering figures who fundamentally reshaped the writing and interpretation of American history: Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard, and Vernon Louis Parrington. Hofstadter chronicles how these Progressive-era thinkers dismantled the prevailing patrician narratives of the nineteenth century, replacing them with sweeping interpretive frameworks rooted in economics, geography, and social conflict — frameworks that defined American historiography for generations.\n\nIn this work, Hofstadter argues that the legacies of Turner, Beard, and Parrington are inseparable from the political and cultural anxieties of their own time, illuminating the ways in which historical writing is always, inevitably, a product of its moment. Written with Hofstadter's characteristic precision and intellectual generosity, the study also functions as a subtle self-reckoning — a great historian measuring himself against the giants who came before him. A landmark in American intellectual history, it leaves the reader asking whose assumptions quietly govern the histories we tell today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130726097115,"sku":"2026100008177-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/6586ab81-de99-4b28-826f-72028d2ba218.png?v=1786589385","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008177-secondhand-the-progressive-historians-turner-beard-parrington","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}