So I wanted to start some light reading on the Progressive Era and I need suggestions:
(Also if anyone has any good material on the Sedition Acts I’d greatly apperciate that too)
The Founders on Government
Live Free or Separate
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/leef2.html
You might really like AJ Nock
Already got that one.
“We can get some kind of rough measure of this general atrophy by our own disposition when approached by a beggar. Two years ago we might have been moved to give him something; today we are moved to refer him to the State’s relief-agency. The State has said to society, You are either not exercising enough power to meet the emergency, or are exercising it in what I think is an incompetent way, so I shall confiscate your power, and exercise it to suit myself. Hence when a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.”- Albert J Nock
Thanks for the rest though, that rural South opposition book looks interesting. I have like 12 books I need to finish before I can start that one though. I’m reading Wood’s Meltdown and 33 Questions, DiLorenzo’s How Capitalism saved America, finishing Alexander Gray’s Socialist Tradition and starting on his Economic Docterine, also have to finish Robert Tucker’s Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx and I just started Hazlitts Economics in One Lesson. Then I have to finish Rothbard’s History of Economic Thought and Billington’s Fire on the Minds of Men Then I move onto books I need to buy:
Jean Baechler – Origins of capitalism
Mises – Theory of money and credit
Mises – Human Action
Rothbard – Betrayal of the American right
Rothbard – America’s Great Depression
Rothbard – Panic of 1819
Kolko – Triumph of Conservatism
Vetter & Gallaway – Out of Work: Unemployment in America
Doug French – Early Speculative bubbles and the theory of money
Garet Garrett – The bubble that broke the world
Burton Folsom – Myth of the Robber Barons
Burton Folsom – New Deal or Raw Deal?
John T Flynn – The Roosevelt Myth
George Reisman – Capitalism
At least it won’t be a boring summer