America’s Original Sin Mises Review 4, No. 1 (Spring 1998) VINDICATING THE FOUNDERS Thomas G. West Rowman Littlefield, 1997, xv + 218 pgs. Vindicating the Founders is better than I thought it would be. The author proceeds from an excellent idea. The framers have of late come under attack by leftists of various sorts. As these ideologues see
Why monoculturalism? Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998) LIBERAL RACISM Jim Sleeper Penguin Books, [1997] 1998, 195 pgs. This, I am afraid, is an almost perfectly useless book. Its main thesis may be stated quite simply. White liberals have abandoned the true goals of the civil rights movement--joint participation by whites and blacks in a
Saint Max Mises Review 5, No. 3 (Fall 1999) MAX LERNER: PILGRIM IN THE PROMISED LAND Sanford Lakoff University of Chicago Press, 1998, xxi + 323 pgs. Sanford Lakoff admires Max Lerner greatly. As a student of Lerner’s at Brandeis University in 1949, his “adulation soon became obvious and made me the butt of jokes” (p. xiv). Our author’s hero
Tricked Into War Mises Review 5, No. 3 (Fall 1999) DESPERATE DECEPTION: BRITISH COVERT OPERATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1939-44 Thomas E. Mahl Brassey’s, 1998, xiv + 256 pgs. Professor Mahl’s excellent monograph helps clear up a historical mystery. As everyone knows, Americans before Pearl Harbor opposed, in overwhelming numbers, entry into
The Social Chaos Courts Cause Mises Review 5, No. 4 (Winter 1999) THE END OF DEMOCRACY II: A CRISIS OF LEGITIMACY Edited by Mitchell S. Muncy Spence Publishing Company, 1999, xlviii + 287 pgs. There is nothing like a good target to get a writer going, and the contributors to this excellent symposium have found a very worthy target indeed. The
Dictators in Black Robes Mises Review 2, No. 1 (Spring 1996) THE NEW COLOR LINE: HOW QUOTAS AND PRIVILEGE DESTROY DEMOCRACY Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton Regnery Publishing, 1995, vii + 247 pp. This is a much more radical book than its title suggests. Criticism of quotas and affirmative action is hardly new. As the authors note,
Fabrication Mises Review 6, No. 1 (Spring 2000) A NECESSARY EVIL Garry Wills Simon and Schuster, 1999, 365 pgs. Garry Wills is a man with a mission. He wishes to expose for the falsehood that it is a myth that has bedeviled American history. Teachers of heresy such as Thomas Jefferson and John C. Calhoun have maintained that government,
Adams’s Stunning Achievement Mises Review 6, No. 3 (Fall 2000) WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS: ARGUING THE CASE FOR SOUTHERN SECESSION Charles Adams Rowman and Littlefield, 2000; xiv + 257 pgs. Charles Adams manifests in this excellent book a rare talent-he asks intelligent historical questions. Many today portray the Civil War as a struggle
The Truth-Splitter Mises Review 6, No. 4 (Winter 2000) FORCED INTO GLORY: ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S WHITE DREAM Lerone Bennett, Jr. Johnson Publishing, 2000; xv + 651 pgs. The Swiss scholar Eduard Fueter once observed that every historian must decide whether he wishes to write from the perspective of his own time, or from the perspective of those whom
The Indefensible Abe Mises Review 7, No. 2 (Summer 2001 ) A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR Harry V. Jaffa Rowman and Littlefield, 2000; xiv + 549 pgs. Professor Jaffa has set himself a difficult task. He presents Abraham Lincoln as a champion of freedom for all. Not for Honest Abe the virulent racist
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