Acknowledgements

Cronyism: Rise of the Corporatist State, 1849–1929

09/15/2026 Patrick Newman

Patrick Newman describes this volume as the second act in a three-act play, the bridge connecting the country’s founding to the modern America of the present generation.

He thanks Hunter Lewis for underwriting publication costs, the Mises Institute, and the reviewers who read the manuscript.

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