Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:47:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: ed_flanick@yahoo.com (Easy Ed)
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The Costs of War
America's Pyrrhic Victories
By  John V.  Denson 

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New expanded edition, now in paperback!

     War, the greatest threat to
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The greatest accomplishment of Western civilization is arguably the achievement of
individual liberty through limits on the power of the State. In the war-torn twentieth century, we
rarely hear that one of the main costs of armed conflict is long-term loss of liberty to winners and
losers alike. Beyond the obvious and direct costs of dead and wounded soldiers, and the lifetime
struggle of veterans to live with their nightmares and their injuries, there are the hidden costs of
inflation, debts, and taxes--and thedamage to our culture, our morality, and to civilization at
large. This second edition represents a large-scale collective effort to pierce  the veils of myth
and propaganda to reveal the true costs of war, above all, the costs to liberty.

All the major wars the United States has been involved in are covered here. Contributors
include Mark Twain, David Gordon,
Murray N. Rothbard,
Paul Fussell, Ralph Raico and
Robert Higgs.

The standout new essays in this expanded edition are Raico's "World War I, the Turning
Point," which is the most concise statement regarding the real causes and effect--and costs--of
World War I, and David Gordon's "A Common Design: Propaganda and World War," in which
Gordon explores the false propaganda issued by British and U.S. governments for the purpose of
getting the United States into the two World Wars.

"[C]ontains a number of well-written and well-argued
essays that address various aspects of a crucially important but
currently neglected subject for libertarians."
--Mark Brady, Liberty

"The Costs of War offers a devastating critique
of Washington's interventionist tendencies."
--Doug Bandow, World

"This book is the most convincing attack on the warmongering
state to appear since the end of the Second World War." --Gerard
Radnitzky,
University of Trier

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition / xi
Introduction / xxiii

1. War and American Freedom, by John Denson / 1
2. Classical Republicanism and the Right to Bear Arms, by Samuel Francis /
53
3. Defenders of the Republic: The Anti-Interventionist Tradition in American Politics, by
Justin Raimondo / 67
4. America's Two Just Wars: 1775 and 1861, by Murray N. Rothbard / 119
5. Rethinking Lincoln, by Richard Gamble / 135
6. Did the South have to Fight?, by Thomas Fleming / 145
7. War, Reconstruction, and the End of the Old Republic, by Clyde Wilson /
155
8. The Spanish-American War as Trial Run, or Empire as Its Own Justification, by Joseph
Stromberg / 169
9. World War I: The Turning Point, by Ralph Raico / 203
10. World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals, by Murray Rothbard /
249
11. A Common Design: Propaganda and World War, by David Gordon / 301
12. Rethinking Churchill, by Ralph Raico / 321
13. The Old Breed and the Costs of War, by Eugene Sledge / 361
14. War and Leviathan in Twentieth-Century America: Conscription as the Keystone, by
Robert Higgs / 375
15. The Military as an Engine of Social Change, by Alan Carlson / 389
16. His Country's Own Heart's-Blood: American Writers Confront War, by Bill
Kauffman / 399
17. The Culture of War, by Paul Fussell / 417
18. Is Modern Democracy Warlike?, by Paul Gottfried / 425
19. War and the Money Machine: Concealing the Costs of War Beneath the Veil of Inflation, by
Joseph Salerno / 433
20. Time Preference, Government, and the Process of De-Civilization: From Monarchy to
Democracy, by Hans-Hermann Hoppe / 455

Appendices
General Robert E. Lee's Reply to Lord Action / 495
Mark Twain's War Prayer / 499
Representative Claude Kitchin's Speech Opposing President Wilson's Request for a Declaration
of War / 503

Recommended Reading / 509
About the Contributors / 517
Index / 519








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