FWIW, the books you mentioned are on this other longer list of bad books of 20th century:
http://sydneyline.com/Intercollegiate%20Review%20selection.htm
I got to read some of Beard's stuff in HS history.
Phew, I survived.
Charles Reich, The Greening of America (1970) Out of blue jeans, marijuana, free love, and the monumental egoism of a generation that refused to grow up, a Yale Law School professor concocted an adolescent fantasy: Consciousness III. Groovy, man.Thanks for the introduction.