If you were putting together a collection of writings by Frank Chodorov, what would you include? It's an almost impossible task because he wrote so much and there is explosive insight in nearly every piece. The goal might be, as it is in this volume, to include the work that was nearly lost to history because its original venue vanished from public memory.
So the editor of this volume, Charles Hamilton, is to be commended for an outstanding job of finding many of the most rare of Chodorov's writings from Human Events and Analysis and putting them in a single book.
The energy of his prose and the power of his arguments hasn't diminished with time; indeed this book shows that Chodorov is for the ages.
Just take a look at the contents:
Part I The Political Mentality
The Dogma of Our Times
Washington: A Psychosis
Washington, the American Mecca
Remember Robespierre
Part II Natural Rights and Unnatural Wrongs
Source of Rights
Economics Versus Politics
From God or the Sword?
Government Contra State
Civilization or Caveman Economy?
Free Will and the Marketplace
One Worldism
Part III Why We Have Socialism
About Socialism and Socialists
The “Crime” of the Capitalists
A Fifty-Year Project
Part IV Communism and America
Let’s Teach Communism
Commies Don’t Count
How to Curb the Commies
How Communism Came to America
Part V Why Don’t You Propose
Something Constructive?
On Saving the Country
If We Quit Voting
What Individualism Is Not
Thought and the World of Action
Why Teach Freedom?
Part VI Education and Freedom
My Friend’s Education
Why Free Schools Are Not Free
Private Schools: The Solution to America’s
Educational Problem
Part VII Taxation Is Robbery
The Revolution of 1913
Socialism via Taxation
Part VIII An Individualist’s Heritage
Thomas Jefferson, Rebel!
George Mason of Virginia
Henry David Thoreau
The Articulate Individualist
Part IX The International Scene
Reds Are Natives
Isolationism
A Byzantine Empire of the West?
Free Trade for Preparedness
Part X When War Comes
A Jeremiad
Warfare Versus Welfare
A War to Communize America
Part XI it’s Fun to Fight
On Doing Something About It
Freedom Is Better
Let’s Try Capitalism
About Revolutions
A Legacy of Value
Selected Bibliography of Chodorov’s Works
Index
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