World War I

History

Ralph Raico

Military

Amer Heritage Pub Co

LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com. The great historian of classical liberalism strips away the veneer of exalted leaders and beloved wars. Professor Ralph Raico shows them to be wolves in sheep's clothing and their wars as attacks on human liberty and human rights. In the backdrop of this blistering and deeply insightful and scholarly history is the whitewashing of "great leaders" like Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, FDR, Truman, Stalin, Trotsky, and other collectivists. They are highly regarded because they were on the "right side" of the rise of the state. But do they deserve adulation? Raico says no: these great leaders were main agents in the decline of civilization in the 20th century, all of them anti-liberals who used their power to celebrate and enhance state power.

Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal

World

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com  Here is the book to learn classical liberalism from the ground up, written by the foremost historian in the Austrian tradition--Ralph Raico. He takes on all comers, disposing of all opponents of the market from Keynesians to Marxists and everyone in between, with crackling prose and sizzling wit. The liberal history comes alive with Raico’s pen, and at the same time quenches the reader’s thirst for detail, infusing an excitement that urges the reader to further explore. Raico’s breadth of scholarship is on full display, combining insights and arguments from disparate points. He provides clarity to a history that is often slanted and distorted. Multiple reference lists contained in the book will serve as a classical liberal treasure trove for students and scholars for decades to come.

Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School

Forty years ago, historian Raico completed his dissertation under the direction of F.A. Hayek at the Univ of Chicago. Its title masks its power and importance: The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, &amp; Lord Acton. It has been published for the first time by the Mises Institute, &amp; this is not merely to honor a great historian &amp; thinker. The research contained within it amounts to a major contribution to public intellectual life of the US at the time. The issue he addresses-the revelation of a different form of early liberalism, one heavily influenced by moral concerns &amp; steeped in an older religious ethos-has major implications in our own time as well.What resources were available that highlighted this alternative liberal tradition? There weren't many at the time. It was during this period when Raico went to work on his dissertation. He hit target with an extended discussion of three massively important figures in the history of liberalism for whom a religious orientation, &amp; an overarching moral framework, was central for their thought: French Protestant Benjamin Constant, French Catholic Alexis de Tocqueville, &amp; Lord Acton.Raico provides a detailed reading of their work in all these respects &amp; shows that one need not embrace statism, &amp; that one can be a consistent &amp; full-blown liberal in the classical tradition, &amp; not come anywhere near fulfilling the stereotype that conservatives were then creating of libertarians. Ours is a varied tradition of secularists, yes, but also of deeply pious thinkers, too. What drew them all together was a conviction that liberty is the mother &amp; not the daughter of order. Forty years later, it is striking how poignant Raico's treatise remains. And it is fact: conservatives who were blasting away at libertarians at the time never saw this book. It is just now published. It's this way with great books, classic studies of this depth: it remains as powerful &amp; relevant now as ever.

The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Ludwig von Mises Institute

Here is the book to learn classical liberalism from the ground up, written by the foremost historian in the Austrian tradition--Ralph Raico. Every student, scholar, and freedom fan must have a copy of Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School at hand, readying them for intellectual battle!It is indeed rare to study directly under two giants of the Austrian School. Raico wrote his dissertation under the direction of F.A. Hayek at the University of Chicago after being admitted as a high school student to Ludwig von Mises’s NYU seminar in New York. Raico and his friend and fellow Mises seminar attendee, Murray Rothbard, would turn into the modern champions of true liberalism.Raico takes on all comers, disposing of all opponents of the market from Keynesians to Marxists and everyone in between, with crackling prose and sizzling wit. The liberal history comes alive with Raico’s pen, and at the same time quenches the reader’s thirst for detail, infusing an excitement that urges the reader to further explore.Raico’s breadth of scholarship is on full display, combining insights and arguments from disparate points. He provides clarity to a history that is often slanted and distorted. Multiple reference lists contained in the book will serve as a classical liberal treasure trove for students and scholars for decades to come.In his foreword, Austrian School scholar Jörg Guido Hülsmann, credits Raico with educating modern Germans about fellow countryman and forgotten liberal champion, Eugen Richter. Furthermore, the book’s preface by Raico’s friend and colleague, David Gordon, is both extensive and illuminating.

The great historian of classical liberalism strips away the veneer of exalted leaders and beloved wars. Professor Ralph Raico shows them to be wolves in sheep's clothing and their wars as attacks on human liberty and human rights.In the backdrop of this blistering and deeply insightful and scholarly history is the whitewashing of "great leaders" like Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, FDR, Truman, Stalin, Trotsky, and other collectivists. They are highly regarded because they were on the "right side" of the rise of the state. But do they deserve adulation? Raico says no: these great leaders were main agents in the decline of civilization in the 20th century, all of them anti-liberals who used their power to celebrate and enhance state power.Robert Higgs writes the introduction and cheers this powerful expose as a necessary corrective."For Ralph Raico," writes Robert Higgs in the foreword, "it would be not only unseemly but foolish to quiver obsequiously in the historical presence of a Churchill, a Roosevelt, or a Truman. He knows when he has encountered a politician who lusted after power and public adulation, and he describes the man accordingly. He does not sweep under the rug the crimes committed by the most publicly revered Western political leaders. If they ordered or acceded to the commission of mass murder, he tells us, without mincing words, that they did so. The idea that the United States has invariably played the role of savior or 'good guy' in its international relations Raico recognizes as state propaganda, rather than honest history."Thus, in these pages, you will find descriptions and accounts of World War I, of the lead-up to formal U.S. belligerence in World War II, and of Churchill, Roosevelt, and Truman, among others, that bear little resemblance to what you were taught in school. Here you will encounter, perhaps for the first time, compelling evidence of how the British maneuvered U.S. leaders and tricked the American people prior to the U.S. declarations of war in 1917 and 1941. You will read about how the British undertook to starve the Germans – men, women, and children alike – not only during World War I, but for the greater part of a year after the armistice. You will be presented with descriptions of how the communists were deified and the German people demonized by historians and others who ought to have known better. You will see painted in truer shades a portrait of the epic confrontation between the great majority of Americans who wished to keep their country at peace in 1939, 1940, and 1941 and the well-placed, unscrupulous minority who sought to plunge the United States into the European maelstrom."Raico’s historical essays are not for the faint of heart or for those whose loyalty to the U.S. or British state outweighs their devotion to truth and humanity. Yet Ralph did not invent the ugly facts he recounts here, as his ample documentation attests. Indeed, many historians have known these facts, but few have been willing to step forward and defy politically popular and professionally fashionable views in the forthright, pull-no-punches way that Raico does. The historians’ principal defect for the most part has not been a failure or refusal to dig out the relevant facts, but rather a tendency to go along to get along in academia and 'respectable' society, a sphere in which individual honesty and courage generally count against a writer or teacher, whereas capitulation to trendy nonsense often brings great rewards and professional acclaim."Table of ContentsForeword by Robert HiggsIntroductionI EssaysWorld War I: The Turning PointRethinking ChurchillHarry S. Truman: Advancing the RevolutionMarxist Dreams and Soviet RealitiesNazifying the GermansII ReviewsTrotsky: The Ignorance and the EvilThe Two "Testaments" of American Foreign PolicyThe Other Ward that Never EndsStarving a People into SubmissionJohn T. Flynn and the Apotheosis of Franklin RooseveltOn the Brink of Wo...

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World War I

Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal

Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School

The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton

Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School

Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal