Surely libertarians have some problems with the measures Lincoln enacted during that conflict, representating as they did the first major precedents in abrogating civil liberties in the US? And to raise that point is not to pimp for chattel slavery, either.

I haven’t read the book myself, and am content at this point to accept Boot’s overall characterization of the text. That doesn’t mean that I concede all the CFR talking points in his review, however. I, too, have major problems with the characterization of the New Deal as anything other than a calamity for individual liberty — political and economic — in the US.

Tim Sullivan

I think the problem with the book–again, without reading it–and why it won’t get conservative report, is that to advocate the Southern cause immediately raises the specter of being anti-Lincoln. Some of the Rockwell folks don’t have a problem with that, though.

Mitch Townsend disagrees with Cathy Young’s suggestion that Thomas E. Woods’ Confederate apologia The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History has been excessively fêted in conservative circles, asking “Where’s the outrage?” On the ot…