2962 The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington, by Richard Hofstadter (read 2 Mar 1997) This 1968 book discusses Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard, and Vernon L. Parrington. It is a "heavy" book and talked a lot about sophisticated historical theory, which I am not much into, so there were great gobs of the book which were not very interesting to me. I only found about half of the book interesting. To appreciate it one would have to be studying the things Hofstadter talks about. ( )