U.S. History

The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping Revolution

Tags: U.S. Economy, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

09/15/1940 • John T. Flynn

Flynn remarks on the impetus behind this powerful book: I wrote this book to answer a question that practically everybody is asking: “Where are we heading?” More people ask that question than any other.... I thought it was about time for someone...

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Country Squire in the White House

Tags: Biographies, U.S. History

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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Capitalism the Creator

Tags: U.S. Economy, U.S. History

02/26/1940 • Carl Snyder

There is one way, and only one way, that any people, in all history, have ever risen from barbarism and poverty to affluence and culture; and that is by that concentrated and highly organized system of production and exchange which we call...

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The New Deal in Old Rome

Tags: Booms and Busts, U.S. History, World History

05/15/1939 • H. J. Haskell

What a fantastic way to learn ancient history: via the parallels with modern times. This book was a smash hit when it first came out in 1939, and yet it went out of print, and hasn’t been in print in half a century. H.J. Haskell was a journalist...

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The Great American Land Bubble: The Amazing Story of Land-Grabbing, Speculations, and Booms from Colonial Days to the Present Times

Tags: Booms and Busts, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

08/12/1932 • A. M. Sakolski

Those who lived through the huge speculative real estate bubble of the 1990s through 2008 might have imagined that it was unprecedented. Not so. Far from it! This definitive history of land speculation provides a well-documented but hugely...

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The Bubble that Broke the World

Tags: Booms and Busts, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

06/01/1932 • Garet Garrett

What caused the stock-market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed? This book blows away the conventional interpretations, not only in its contents but that the book exists at all. The Bubble that Broke the World was written in...

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Jefferson

Tags: Biographies, U.S. History

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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The Blue Wound

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

01/01/1921 • Garet Garrett

Who started World War One? That is the all-encompassing question that Garet Garrett asks in this classic book from 1921. The amazing thing about this book — apart from its insightfulness into what or who really started World War One, and Garrett...

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How Diplomats Make War

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

11/15/1915 • Francis Neilson

Francis Neilson (1867–1961) was a member of the British Parliament, one of the last truly educated British aristocrats, a colleague and friend of Albert Jay Nock’s, and an amazing historian and stylist. He is also the author of this historic...

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Tariff History of the United States

Tags: Taxes and Spending, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

06/15/1890 • F.W. Taussig

The Mises Institute has completely re-typeset F.W. Taussig’s definitive work on the tariffs of the 19th century in the United States, a history that in some sense is the most important ever written because it was so decisive in leading to the...

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