Great Wars and Great Leaders
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Ralph Raico
English
2010
ISBN: 1610160967
265 pages
PDF
1.57 MB
The great historian of classical liberalism strips away the veneer of exalted
leaders and beloved wars. Professor Ralph Raico shows them to be wolves in
sheep's clothing and their wars as attacks on human liberty and human rights.
In the backdrop of this blistering and deeply insightful and scholarly history
is the whitewashing of "great leaders" like Woodrow Wilson, Winston
Churchill, FDR, Truman, Stalin, Trotsky, and other collectivists.
They are highly regarded because they were on the "right side" of the
rise of the state. But do they deserve adulation? Raico says no: these great
leaders were main agents in the decline of civilization in the 20th century,
all of them anti-liberals who used their power to celebrate and enhance state
power.
Robert Higgs writes the introduction and cheers this powerful expose as a
necessary corrective.
"For Ralph Raico," writes Robert Higgs in the foreword, "it
would be not only unseemly but foolish to quiver obsequiously in the historical
presence of a Churchill, a Roosevelt, or a Truman. He knows when he has
encountered a politician who lusted after power and public adulation, and he
describes the man accordingly. He does not sweep under the rug the crimes
committed by the most publicly revered Western political leaders. If they
ordered or acceded to the commission of mass murder, he tells us, without
mincing words, that they did so. The idea that the United States has invariably
played the role of savior or "good guy" in its international
relations Raico recognizes as state propaganda, rather than honest history.
"Thus, in these pages, you will find descriptions and accounts of World
War I, of the lead-up to formal U.S. belligerence in World War II, and of
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Truman, among others, that bear little resemblance to
what you were taught in school. Here you will encounter, perhaps for the first
time, compelling evidence of how the British maneuvered U.S. leaders and trick
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