Wither’d Garland of War Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997) THE COSTS OF WAR: AMERICA’S PYRRHIC VICTORIES John V. Denson, Editor Transaction Publishers, 1997, viii + 450 pgs. The contributors to this outstanding volume have grasped a simple but unfashionable truth: war is a great evil. It entails horrible suffering and death on a large scale and has
Whose Style? Which America? Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997) ASSIMILATION, AMERICAN STYLE Peter D. Salins Basic Books, 1997, xi + 259 pgs. Peter Salins, Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, has good news. Americans need no longer worry about immigration, so long as a simple and straightforward plan is adopted: all immigrants
Who’s In Charge? Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Spring 1997) PRESIDENTIAL WAR POWER Louis Fisher University Press of Kansas, 1995. xvi + 245 pgs. The conduct of contemporary American foreign policy flies in the face of the Constitution and much of our history. Of this unfortunate circumstance, readers of Louis Fisher’s definitive book will have no doubt.
The Jefferson Revisionism Hoax Mises Review 3, No. 1 (1997) THE LONG AFFAIR: THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1785-1800 Conor Cruise O’ B rien University of Chicago Press, 1996, xvii + 367 pgs . Conor Cruise O’Brien lets the mask drop on p. 274 of his deplorable new book. Praising another writer on Jefferson, O’Brien remarks: “What is
Charmed Into Bloodshed Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Summer 1997) SELLING WAR: THE BRITISH PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN AGAINST AMERICAN “NEUTRALITY” IN WORLD WAR II Nicholas John Cull Oxford University Press, 1995, xv + 276 pgs. Great Britain learned an important lesson from World War I. American entry into that war in 1917 proved decisive. The American
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