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The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E. Woods Jr.

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Oct 15, 10

bookshelves: awful-books, history, liberty
Recommended for: nobody
Read from October 02 to 15, 2010 — I own a copy

Inside, you learn that the American "revolutionaries" were actually conservatives. Puritans and other colonists mostly didn't steal Indian lands or engage in genocidal ...acts against them. The first section heading is called "Suspicion+Dislike=Liberty. A formula for freedom." All the chapter titles are actually pretty irritating.

Later on it gets into Confederate apologetics, justifying religious tyranny as long as it's done by the states and not the federal government. He seems to love focusing on petty, relatively minor injustices that appeal to the Right, while ignoring more massive injustices more appealing to the Left. The book may be largely (though CERTAINLY not completely) correct in it's facts, but it's selection and representation are highly distorted.

For an "Anarchist" he sure cares a lot about states rights and nullification (hes damn near obsessed with it). He is a political libertarian, but not at all a cultural libertarian. He is essentially a member of the Old Right that has an abstract belief that the state sorta shouldn't exist in the very long term.

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Reading Progress

10/02/2010 page 43
16.0% "This is my equivalent of reading a trashy gossip periodical."
10/03/2010 page 93
34.0% "So the Black codes werent so bad eh?"
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