Biographies

The Roosevelt Myth

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08/15/1948 • John T. Flynn

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the most sainted president of the 20th century. You have to look far and wide to discover the truth about his character and policies. But as John T. Flynn noted in this landmark 1948 volume, FDR actually prolonged the...

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The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume 1

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05/04/1945 • Thomas Paine

The writings of Thomas Paine helped shape the American nation and left their imprint on democratic thought all over the world. This two-volume set represents an attempt to make these writings available to both the general reader and the student...

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The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume 2

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05/03/1945 • Thomas Paine

The writings of Thomas Paine helped shape the American nation and left their imprint on democratic thought all over the world. This two-volume set represents an attempt to make these writings available to both the general reader and the student...

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Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

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06/15/1943 • Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of...

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Men of Wealth: The Story of Twelve Significant Fortunes from the Renaissance to the Present Day

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02/15/1941 • John T. Flynn

This book reminds us what a remarkable writer and journalist John T. Flynn truly was. It is a first-class business history, by any standard. It is the story of great fortunes made by the most notable men of wealth in history: Jacob Fugger, John...

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Country Squire in the White House

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06/15/1940 • John T. Flynn

John T. Flynn was an early New Dealer who quickly saw what happens when power is concentrated in the executive state. He became a passionate opponent of FDR and his policies. This 1940 book is his analysis of the American presidency and the...

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After Seven Years

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10/20/1939 • Raymond Moley

Written by an adviser to FDR who helped assemble the president’s “brain trust”, After Seven Years is a must-read for anyone claiming to be a student of the New Deal. Written in the midst of man-made economic calamity, Moley supplies an insider’s...

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God’s Gold: The Story of Rockefeller and His Times

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06/15/1932 • John T. Flynn

In 1932, John T. Flynn had begun to rethink his old-style “progressivism” to develop intellectually into a defender of markets as against the regimentation of government management. A first product of these steps is this classic and...

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On Doing the Right Thing

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06/15/1928 • Albert Jay Nock

This wonderful collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock, first published in 1928, includes his “Anarchist’s Progress,” “Thoughts on Revolution,” “The Decline of Conversation,” and other classics by this great American essayist and influential...

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Jefferson

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06/15/1926 • Albert Jay Nock

Here is Albert Jay Nock’s classic study on the life and thought of Thomas Jefferson, a book which draws out points other biographers have missed: his radicalism, his opposition to all centralized government, his attachment to liberty and...

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