Mises Daily
Author:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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[Thomas DiLorenzo discusses his upcoming online Mises Academy class The Great Centralizer: Lincoln and the Growth of Statism , a six-week course starting January 18.] In his 1962 book, Patriotic Gore , Edmund Wilson wrote that “if we would grasp the significance of the Civil War in relation to the history of our time” it is important to realize