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The Betrayal of the American Right is a book by Murray Rothbard written in the early 1970s and published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute in 2007. [1]In it, Rothbard describes the development of the American political Old Right between the 1920s and 1950s, [2] claiming that it died out in favor of a more interventionist political Right during the Cold War. [3]
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The Betrayal of the American Rightcan be described. Murray N. Rothbard chronicles the emergence of an American right wing that gave lip service to free-market principles and “limited govern-ment,” but whose first priority, for which it was willing to sacrifice anything else, was military interventionism around the world.
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Jan 1, 2007 · Betrayal of the American Right is the full story, and the author is none other than Murray N. Rothbard, who witnessed it all first hand. He tells his own story and reveals that machinations behind the subversion of an anti-state movement into one that cheers statism of the worst sort. The book was written in the mid-1970s and is only now ...
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The Betrayal of the American Right. Rothbard identifies a movement he calls the “Old Right.”. This was a libertarian movement that included Albert Jay Nock, H.L. Mencken, and John T. Flynn. It was in part a reaction to American entry into World War I, and this group joined with revisionist historians like Harry Elmer Barnes in challenging ...
Apr 19, 2024 · Betrayal of the American Right shows that the corruption of American "conservatism" began long before George W. Bush — and its author, Murray N. Rothbard, witnessed it all first hand. According to Rothbard, the corruption began in the ten years after the end of World War II.
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Aug 31, 2007 · The American Right long ago slid into the abyss. Betrayal of the American Right is the full story, and the author is none other than Murray N. Rothbard, who witnessed it all first hand. He tells his own story and reveals that machinations behind the subversion of an anti-state movement into one that cheers statism of the worst sort.
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Dec 18, 2018 · The Betrayal of the American Right. After World War II, the “Old Right” was derailed by an interventionist group of anti-communist crusaders—and Libertarian ideas went by the wayside. Here, Murray Rothbard tells the sorry tale from the inside. Narrated by Ian Temple.
