U.S. History
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9. The Invasion of Canada
Pages 46-52 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: “The War Begins.”
4. The Seizure of Fort Ticonderoga
Pages 26-29 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: “The War Begins.”
71. The Vermont Revolution: The Green Mountain Boys
Pages 340-349 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.
7. The Battle of Bunker Hill
Pages 40-42 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: “The War Begins.”
The Goldwater Anomaly
The eloquence was chiefly the doing of Goldwater's speechwriter and principal adviser during the 1964 campaign, the journalist and political ghostwriter Karl Hess. As Hess tells it, Senator Goldwater really was a genuine classical liberal.
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State, by Garry Wills
I did not anticipate writing a favorable review of a book by Garry Wills. He veered fairly early in his career from a quirky form of conservatism to a run-of-the mill leftism.
Nock’s Theory of Education
The paradox is that if Nock had but known it, Columbia College in his day was the nearest approximation to the ideal set forth in his lectures.
Murphy on the Great Confusion
The myth of the Great Depression being caused by laissez-faire capitalism — and being solved by either the New Deal, World War II, or both — is so prevalent that in popular-opinion surveys, Franklin Delano Roosevelt routinely appears in the top five of all US presidents, while the name of Herbert Hoover has become synonymous with government inaction during an economic crisis.
The Little House Books: A Pioneer Chronicle
"They took care of themselves and recognized that having freedom means the freedom to fail as well as to succeed."
