Behind the Jeffersonian Veneer: the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History is no libertarian.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Published | 2005-06-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | n/a | Thomas Woods |
| Author | n/a | Cathy Young |
THOMAS WOODS' BEST-SELLING Politically Incorrect Guide to American History is primarily pitched to conservative readers, but it's also crafted for libertarian appeal. Its rhetoric is strongly anti-statist, pro-market, and opposed to centralization; in interviews, Woods has called himself a "Jeffersonian" championing liberty. Scratch that ostensibly libertarian veneer, though, and you'll find ... something else.
Much of the book's first half is an apologia for the antebellum South and its cause in the War Between the States (Woods' preferred term). Taking the familiar view...
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