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Summing up the work of libertarian economist and historian Murray
N. Rothbard (1926-1995) and noting its stunning range, philosopher
David Gordon once wondered "if there are really three, four, or
five geniuses writing under his name." The lively essays collected
in this book display one of those geniuses: Rothbard the
journalist, cultural critic, political observer, and movement
organizer. Even more remarkable, they represent just a fraction of
what he wrote in his spare time, for just one publication, and in
just the last few years of his life. His articles combined
libertarian antigovernment economics, decentralist local
patriotism, antiwar isolation, and a dissident/reactionary cultural
outlook that saw the growth of government as the key to the loss of
the Old Republic. He defended land-rights groups against
environmentalists, citizen militias against gun grabbers,
isolationists against imperialists, paleoconservatives against
neoconservatives, populists against party regulars, anti-New World
Order conspiracy theorists against the establishment, nationalists
against internationalist planners, states' righters against
libertarian centralists, the Christian Right against its own
leadership, and much more. These essays show not only Rothbard's
intellectual vigor but the complete joy with which he embraced
life, and how his extreme optimism made even the most severe
setbacks tolerable. He experienced great disappointments and great
successes, but through it all he was heroic, undaunted, and
irrepressible.
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