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by Murray N. Rothbard (Author), Murray Rothbard (Author), Thomas E. Woods Jr. (Introduction)

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This remarkable piece of history will change the way you look at American politics. It shows that the corruption of American "conservatism" began long before George W. Bush ballooned the budget and asserted dictatorial rights over the country and the world. The American Right long ago slid into the abyss. Betrayal of the American Right is the full story, and the author is none other than Murray N. Rothbard, who witnessed it all first hand. He tells his own story and reveals that machinations behind the subversion of an anti-state movement into one that cheers statism of the worst sort. The book was written in the mid-1970s and is only now published for the first time. Each time a prospective publisher promised to go ahead, the deal fell through. Even so, it has been privately circulated for the 30 years since it was written - and everyone lucky enough to own a copy of the manuscript knew he had a treasure. People who have read it swear that it is the best account ever how the old right was subverted to become a propaganda branch of the state, not just recently but fifty years ago. So Rothbard's account is not only a critical historical document; it also has explosive explanatory power.

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into that long trajectory that would lead to George Bush. As Thomas Woods writes in the introduction, "It is not just a history of the Old Right, or of the anti-interventionist tradition in America. It is the story at least in part of Rothbard's own political and intellectual development: the books he read, the people he met, the friends he made, the organizations he joined, and so much more." Obviously, little of this has made it into the official history of the United States. The movement called the Old Right is rarely discussed or even acknowledged, except to be smeared as backwards and isolationist. Countless times we read that the American right was founded by National Review, and nothing of any merit existed before. In fact, the most consistent opponents of Harry Truman's early Cold War measures were on the ideological right. They saw the whole thing as a trick to keep government control and spending in place. They resisted every step. And they were precisely right: Truman's whole plan was to prevent Republican political advances by distracting people with trumped-up foreign threats. Among the resistors was Senator Robert Taft. He opposed the Truman Doctrine, Nato, the Marshall Plan, and he refused to back more military spending in times of peace. And who supported all these policies? It was people on the left, such as The Nation. The Left favored big government in the mode of FDR. The Right was against it. But how many historians know anything about these crucial years? How many know that the left and right changed place from the late 50s through the 1960s? Very few indeed. What Rothbard shows is that the cause of peace is our heritage, and that free markets has been united with the antiwar cause from the founding fathers through the Old Right and as late as the 1950s. There is so much in this book to appreciate but especially valuable are his comments on the left in the 1960s. There might have seemed to be some hope for some type of collaboration. They were against war and for civil liberties at a time when the right was becoming increasingly imperialist and warmongering. Rothbard explains his attempt to educate the left on economics. Alas, there was no hope. He had to go it alone and forge a completely new movement called libertarianism. Rothbard plays a much more important role in the history of American politics than is usually acknowledged. He is the link between the Old Right and the new libertarian movement of our times. It was Rothbard who brought Mises's work to the attention of a new generation, writing about his ideas and expanding them. It was Rothbard who worked not only as an intellectual but an activist. It shows what one man and a typewriter can do. This book has been the best-kept secret in political writing for the last half century. Now at last it can be revealed to the world. Betrayal of the America Right is the tell-all book that shows why and how the ideological world turned upside down. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Paperback: 231 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1st edition (January 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1479229512
ISBN-13: 978-1479229512
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.6 x 11 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 17 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #969,525 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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this book shows the growth and confusion each of us faces as we seek to find a better solution to the every growing totalitarian

ByLeeSon April 5, 2015

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This series of essays by one of the movers of the modern Libertarian Movement shows the discordant and contradictory philosophy that prevents this movement from entering center stage. The honesty of the writer in revealing himself through his essays helps the reader to understand that today's statism has no simple solution and that a Liberty Movement would be ineffective since so many people would be pulling so many directions as to be accused of randomness leading to hopelessness. Yet, this book shows the growth and confusion each of us faces as we seek to find a better solution to the every growing totalitarian statism we know today as, America.

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The New Conservative Betrayal of the Old (and Libertarian) Right

ByEric Mackon November 19, 2014

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This is a very interesting account of the ways in which "New Conservatives" gathered around and guided by William Buckley marginalized and displaced the Old Right which was dedicated both to seriously limited government and a non-interventionist foreign policy. Rothbard emphasizes the extent to which the fundamental concern of the New Conservatives was support for an active, global campaign against Communism and the extent to which they were willing to embrace a domestic Leviathan in order to combat the Soviet Leviathan.

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Very good and very informative!

ByNeed2Knowon August 29, 2014

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WOW this book is making me think a LOT! I love books like that. Totally suggest this one to all who are questioning what the hell is going on in politics these days (both sides, it is NOT an R or D thing anymore.)