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JOHN V. DENSON practiced law as a defense trial attorney for many years and in 1988 was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers. In 2005, he was elected Circuit Judge. He is the editor of and a contributor to two prior books, The Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories and Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom. All proceeds from the sale of this book go to the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

“A Century of War” was delivered as a lecture in 1997 at the fifteenth anniversary of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. “Abraham Lincoln and the First Shot” and “Franklin D. Roosevelt and the First Shot” are from Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2001). “The Calamity of World War I,” and “Another Century of War?” first appeared in the Freeman, and “The Will to Peace” was originally published on LewRockwell.com and Mises.org.

Front cover: Photo by Frank Hurley. Permission granted by the Australian War Memorial, negative number E01220.

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ISBN: 10 digit: 1-933550-06-6
ISBN: 13 digit: 978-1-933550-06-0