Becker, Carl L. (Carl Lotus) 1873-1945

Overview

Works:	335 works in 1,567 publications in 5 languages and 28,115 library holdings
Genres:	History Lectures Fiction Biography Textbooks Sermons Biographies Historical fiction
Roles:	Author, Editor, Other, Contributor, Author of introduction

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Carl L Becker

The pragmatic revolt in American history: Carl Becker and Charles Beard by Cushing Strout( Book )
Carl Becker : a biographical study in American intellectual history by Burleigh Taylor Wilkins( Book )
Carl Becker: on history & the climate of opinion by Charlotte Watkins Smith( Book )
"What is the good of history?" Selected letters of Carl L. Becker, 1900 -1945 by Carl L Becker( Book )
Carl Becker on history and the American Revolution by Robert Eldon Brown( Book )

Cities on the Cedar : a portrait of Cedar Falls, Waterloo and Black Hawk County by Glenda Riley( Book )
Carl Becker by Charlotte Watkins Smith( Book )
A species of literary lion : essays on Morison, Freeman, De Voto and Becker, and the writing of history by David Edward Herold( )
Can historiography be objective? : an examination of the thought of Carl Lotus Becker and Kenneth Scott Latourette by Taesig Kim( )
Carl L. Becker by David Freeman Hawke( )
The historiography of Carl L. Becker by Harold E Bauman( Book )
Carl Becker's Heavenly city revisited by Raymond Oxley Rockwood( Book )
Between science and art : Henry Adams, Carl Becker, and history in America by Kent Blaser( )
Carl Lotus Becker (1873-1945) by Guy Stanton Ford( Book )
Carl Lotus Becker( )
Generous souls amid catastrophe : Charles Beard, James Harvey Robinson, Carl Becker, 1890-1925 by Donald Moore Scott( )
History and the climate of opinion: an essay on Carl Becker by Charlotte Watkins Smith( )
Carl Becker: a study of liberalism and the history of ideas by Carl Horwich( )
from Helen Becker by W. T Purdum( )
Harold J. Laski Collection by Harold J Laski( )

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Most widely held works by Carl L Becker

The Declaration of independence : a study in the history of political ideas by Carl L Becker( Book )

123 editions published between 1922 and 2017 in English and held by 3,656 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Detailed examination of the political theories formulated in the Declaration of Independence and their historical antecedents

The heavenly city of the eighteenth century philosophers by Carl L Becker( Book )

109 editions published between 1922 and 2004 in English and Chinese and held by 2,487 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Lectures delivered in the School of law in Yale university on the Storrs foundation ... April, 1931"--Pref."Published on the Mary Cady Tew memorial fund."--1st prelim. leaf

The eve of the revolution : a chronicle of the breach with England by Carl L Becker( Book )

47 editions published between 1918 and 2004 in English and held by 1,712 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Beginnings of the American people by Carl L Becker( Book )

58 editions published between 1915 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,278 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This work presents a brief account of the beginnings, development and final unity of the people of the United States

Everyman his own historian; essays on history and politics by Carl L Becker( Book )

23 editions published between 1935 and 1987 in English and held by 1,186 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Detachment and the writing of history : essays and letters of Carl L. Becker by Carl L Becker( Book )

31 editions published between 1910 and 1972 in English and held by 1,153 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The history of political parties in the province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl L Becker( Book )

25 editions published between 1909 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,149 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

How new will the better world be? A discussion of post-war reconstruction by Carl L Becker( Book )

35 editions published between 1944 and 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,015 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"First edition."An expansion of two articles by the author, "Making democracy safe in the world" and "How new will the better world be?" which appeared in the Yale review for March 1942 and March 1943, respectively. cf. Pref. London edition (H. Hamilton, 1945) has title: Making a better world

Modern democracy by Carl L Becker( Book )

52 editions published between 1941 and 1964 in 3 languages and held by 986 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Freedom and responsibility in the American way of life; five lectures delivered ... at the University of Michigan, December 1944 by Carl L Becker( Book )

52 editions published between 1945 and 1960 in 4 languages and held by 960 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This collection of five lectures comprises a testament both challenging and reassuring: challenging because it clearly defines the magnitude of the dilemma which confronts modern democratic man in a technological society; reassuring, because it clearly states the philosophical ground for belief that modern democratic man can resolve that dilemma

Progress and power by Carl L Becker( Book )

31 editions published between 1936 and 1965 in English and Italian and held by 860 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"'Lectures delivered at Stanford University, on the RaYmond Fred West Memorial Foundation, in April 1935.'"

The Spirit of '76, and other essays by Carl L Becker( Book )

20 editions published between 1927 and 1974 in English and held by 570 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Freedom and responsibility in the American way of life : five lectures delivered on the William W. Cook Foundation at the University of Michigan, December 1944 by Carl L Becker( Book )

39 editions published between 1945 and 1980 in English and held by 545 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This collection of five lectures comprises a testament both challenging and reassuring: challenging because it clearly defines the magnitude of the dilemma which confronts modern democratic man in a technological society; reassuring, because it clearly states the philosophical ground for belief that modern democratic man can resolve that dilemma

Safeguarding civil liberty today; the Edward L. Bernays lectures of 1944 given at Cornell university by Carl L Becker( Book )

16 editions published between 1943 and 1949 in English and held by 537 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

New liberties for old by Carl L Becker( Book )

18 editions published between 1941 and 1959 in English and held by 518 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Modern history; the rise of a democratic, scientific, and industrial civilization by Carl L Becker( Book )

34 editions published between 1931 and 1958 in English and Undetermined and held by 481 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Select readings" at end of each chapter except the first

Benjamin Franklin, a biographical sketch by Carl L Becker( Book )

9 editions published in 1946 in English and held by 382 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The United States : an experiment in democracy by Carl L Becker( Book )

21 editions published between 1920 and 2018 in English and held by 380 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"According to Carl Becker "if the framers of the Constitution could come back to earth and see what the federal government is doing to-day, they would all agree that this monstrous thing was no child of theirs; for to-day the federal government exercises as a matter of course powers which they never dreamed of." This prescient statement rings as true today as it did when Becker wrote An Experiment in Democracy nearly eighty years ago. This American classic is an engaging, gracefully rendered piece of historical literature as well as a non-ideological meditation on the "meaning of America."Carl Becker's ruminations are invariably provocative, notably wise, and remarkably enduring. He clearly believed in what has been called a "living Constitution," one that must be adapted to changing circumstances and imperatives in America life, and his faith in democracy seems to have strengthened as the decades progressed. In his new introduction, Michael Kammen places this American classic in historical perspective. Kammen sees Becker as more than an archival historian, but rather as a master of the "creative synthesis" looking at familiar sources in fresh ways and developing new points of view that were frequently revisionist and, on occasion, radically arresting. Much has changed between 1920 and the present; but Carl Becker's sagacity persists, just as his expository prose will continue to please a new generation of historians and students of American social history. Carl Becker was the author of "Kansas"; The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas; Modern History: The Rise of a Democratic, Scientific, and Industrial Civilization; "Benjamin Franklin"; "Everyman His Own Historian"; The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers; How New Will the Better World Be?; and Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life."--Provided by publisher

Napoleon in review by George Gordon Andrews( Book )

7 editions published in 1939 in English and Undetermined and held by 312 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cornell university: founders and the founding. Six lectures delivered at Cornell university on the Messenger foundation in the year 1943, in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the opening of that institution in the year 1868: together with fifteen interesting but hitherto unpublished documents relating thereto. The whole further adduced in explanatory and commentative notes and supported by exact references to the original sources according to the practice of the most eminent historians; with all of which is included an address entitled 'The Cornell tradition, ' delivered on April 27, 1940, in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the signing of the charter by Carl L Becker( Book )

8 editions published between 1943 and 1944 in English and held by 267 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Six lectures delivered at Cornell university on the Messenger foundation in the year 1943, in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the opening of that institution in the year 1868: together with fifteen interesting but hitherto unpublished documents relating thereto. The whole further adduced in explanatory and commentative notes and supported by exact references to the original sources according to the practice of the most eminent historians; with all of which is included an address entitled 'The Cornell tradition, ' delivered on April 27, 1940, in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the signing of the charter

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