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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
List of contents
Preface to the Second Edition, Introduction, 1. War and American Freedom, 2. Classical Republicanism and the Right to Bear Arms, 3. Defenders of the Republic: The Anti-Interventionist Tradition in American Politics, 4. America's Two Just Wars: 1775 and 1861, 5. Rethinking Lincoln, 6. Did the South Have to Fight?, 7. War, Reconstruction, and the End of the Old Republic, 8. The Spanish-American War as Trial Run, or Empire as Its Own Justification, 9. World War I: The Turning Point, 10. World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals, 11. A Common Design: Propaganda and World War, 12. Rethinking Churchill, 13. The Old Breed and the Costs of War, 14. War and Leviathan in Twentieth-Century America: Conscription as the Keystone, 15. The Military as an Engine of Social Change, 16. His Country's Own Heart's-Blood: American Writers Confront War, 17. The Culture of War, 18. Is Modem Democracy Warlike?, 19. War and the Money Machine: Concealing the Costs of War Beneath the Veil of Inflation, 20. Time Preference, Government, and the Process of De-Civilization: From Monarchy to Democracy, Appendices, Recommended Reading, About the Contributors, Index
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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
