WHO KILLED THE CONSTITUTION? THE FATE OF AMERICAN LIBERTY FROM WORLD WAR I TO GEORGE W. BUSH
Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R.C. Gutzman
Crown Forum, 2008, viii + 259 pgs.
SMART POWER: TOWARD A PRUDENT FOREIGN POLICY FOR AMERICA
Ted Galen Carpenter
Cato Institute, 2008, xi + 258 pgs.
ANARCHISM/MINARCHISM: IS A GOVERNMENT PART OF A FREE COUNTRY?
Roderick T. Long and Tibor R. Machan
Ashgate, 2008, xi + 196 pgs.
SOVEREIGNTY: GOD, STATE, AND SELF
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Basic Books, 2008, xvii + 334 pgs.
VINDICATING LINCOLN: DEFENDING THE POLITICS OF OUR GREATEST PRESIDENT
Thomas L. Krannawitter
Roman & Littlefield, 2008, xv + 355 pgs.
A NATION OF SHEEP
Andrew P. Napolitano
Thomas Nelson, 2007, xiii + 240 pgs.
Judge Napolitano has organized his excellent book around a central metaphor. He contrasts sheep, who follow their shepherd with unquestioning devotion, and wolves, who are alert to protect themselves:
RESCUING JUSTICE AND EQUALITY
G.A. Cohen
Harvard University Press, 2008, xvii + 430 pgs.
COURTS AND CONGRESS: AMERICA’S UNWRITTEN CONSTITUTION
William J. Quirk
Transaction Publishers, 2008, xviii + 312 pgs.
HAMILTON’S CURSE: HOW JEFFERSON’S ARCHENEMY BETRAYED THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR AMERICA TODAY
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Crown Forum, 2008, 245 pgs.
NEW DEAL OR RAW DEAL? HOW FDR’S ECONOMIC LEGACY HAS DAMAGED AMERICA
Burton Folsom, Jr.
Threshold Editions, 2008, xvi + 318 pgs.
Readers of The Mises Review will not be surprised to learn that Folsom considers the New Deal a failure. Nevertheless, even those already familiar with such books as John T. Flynn’s The Roosevelt Myth will find Folsom’s book valuable. Folsom advances new and important arguments.
