fLudwig von Mises Institute, 518 West Magnolia Avenue, Auburn, Alabama 36832; mises.org. Copyright 2009 by Jeff Riggenbach Published under Creative Commons attribution license 3.0 ISBN: 978-1-933550-49-7
ffACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Portions of Chapter Three and Chapter Five appeared earlier, in somewhat different form, in Liberty magazine, on RationalReview. com, and on Antiwar.com. David J.
America in the World WarsA Revisionist Perspective A Revisionist Look at America in the Cold War
v. Herbert Hoovers New Deal vi. The Myth of the Old Right vii. The Goldwater Anomaly viii. The Reagan Fraudand After
174 184 American History According to Eric Foner 192 Thomas E. Woods, Jr. vs. Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen 196 History, Fiction, and ObjectivitySome Concluding Observations 203 207
wars waged before the 1980s had it, too. The only question at issue back then, really, was whether any given textbook gave one or another of the various formerly aggrieved groups what was felt to be its proper due.
It was made up. How could we rely on any information we picked up about the events of the past from reading such a work? To answer these questions properly, it will be necessary to take a brief but closely focused look at the discipline of history itself.