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REASSESSING THE PRESIDENCY
THE RISE OF THE EXECUTIVE STATE
AND THE DECLINE OF FREEDOM
EDITED BY JOHN V. DENSON
832 pgs. (hardback) $35.00
ISBN: 0-945466-29-3
Order No.: B284
This is the first fullscale
revision of the U.S.
presidency written from
an Austrian–libertarian
perspective. These original
essays zero in on a much
neglected reality that the
executive department of
the U.S. government has
always been the sum total
of the American welfare–
warfare state (exactly as
the antifederalists in the
founding era predicted).
Whereas conventional
histories tell a Whiggish
story of ever-increasing
progress, these essays
observe that the presidents
and their administrations,
from George Washington to
Bill Clinton, have been responsible from the continual decline in
liberty, particularly in their use of the war power.
This volume, in its incredible scope and attention to scholarly
detail, undertakes a complete rethinking of political history. It is
the story of how the U.S., step by step, abandoned its libertarian
roots.
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