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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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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

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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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A History of American Currency

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

06/07/1874 William Graham Sumner

The author, William Graham Sumner, was the great sociologist of late 19th century America, but also a wise observer of economic conditions. In 1874, in the midst of another debate about the future of the American monetary system, he offered this...

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A Short History of Money and Banking by William Gouge

A Short History of Paper Money and Banking in the United States

Tags: Money and Banks, U.S. History

01/01/1835 William M. Gouge

“The Bank was saved, and the people were ruined.” So says William Gouge (1796–1863), one of the best political economists of the American 19th century. He is speaking of the panic of 1819, but his sentence could sum up the whole thesis of this...

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The Origins of the Federal Reserve

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Murray N. Rothbard

In what reads like a detective story, Rothbard has put together a comprehensive and fascinating account based on a century’s accumulation of schola

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Axis of Evil: America’s Three Worst Presidents

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Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Lincoln, FDR, and Wilson were by far America’s worst presidents.

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