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Beard's later political activities diminished his reputation among educators and progressives. By 1934 Beard began to argue that American imperialism abroad inevitably defeated economic planning at home. He became one of the leading American isolationists, and — after 1937 — a shrill critic of Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy. Even after the fall of France in 1940, Beard consistently downplayed the dangers of Nazi tyranny and argued against American intervention in World War II. His last two works, American Foreign Policy in the Making, 1932-1940 (1946) and President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941 (1948), demonized Roosevelt and argued that he had conspired to plunge America into the war. Subsequent historians have validated some of Beard's interpretation, but his repeated underestimation of Japanese and German aggression makes these books onesided and polemical. His stance cost him many friends and affiliations, and toward the end of his life he became increasingly conspiracy-minded and...
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