First published in 1955 and out of print since 1989, this book by the late historian Ekirch (University at Albany) features a new foreword by Robert Higgs and argues that the classic liberalism of lim
"In Crisis and Leviathan, economist and historian Robert Higgs shows how Big Government emerged from responses to national emergencies that occurred as attitudes about the role of government were chan
The antimilitarist tradition --- rooted in the fear of a dictatorship --- is an integral part of the American heritage from colonial times until the 1950s and even unto today. In The Civilian and the