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Jun 2, 2013Readings in Revisionist History
I've been asked to post my list of readings in revisionist history separately so the link can be distributed. I haven't read all these books, but those I haven't gotten to yet come highly recommended by people I respect. I will add to the list from time to time.
- We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now, edited by Murray Polner and Thomas E. Woods Jr.
- The Failure of America's Foreign Wars, edited by Richard M. Ebeling and Jacob G. Hornberger
- America's Second Crusade, by William Henry Chamberlin
- Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal, by Ralph Raico
- Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism, by Jeff Riggenbach
- War Is a Lie, by David Swanson
- War Is a Racket, by Smedley D. Butler
- Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, by Paul Fussell
- Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War, by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
- The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, by William Appleman Williams
- The Civilian and the Military: A History of the American Antimilitarist Tradition, by Arthur Ekirch
- The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars which Altered Forever the Political Life of the American Republic, 1890-1920, by Walter Karp
- The Costs of War, edited by John Denson
- Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, by Stephen Kinzer
- All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, by Stephen Kinzer
- Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, by Chalmers Johnson
- The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic, by Chalmers Johnson
- War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, by Chris Hedges
- A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, by David Fromkin
- The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East, by David Hirst
- Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations, 1820-2001, by Ussama Makdisi
- The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination, by Jeremy R. Hammond
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappe
- The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, by Miko Peled
- Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War II, by Jim Powell
- American Empire: Before the Fall, by Bruce Fein
- Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World, by Jonathan Kwitny
- The Emergency State: America's Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs, by David C. Unger
- Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, by Nicholson Baker
- Secrets, by Daniel Ellsberg
- The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives, by Nick Turse
- “War, Peace, and the State,” by Murray Rothbard
- “‘Ancient History’: U.S. Conduct in the Middle East Since World War II and the Folly of Intervention,” by Sheldon Richman
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