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Bradley in DC
05-05-2008, 02:17 PM
Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism
(Henry Holt, 2008)

BOOK FORUM
Thursday, May 8, 2008
4:00 PM (Reception To Follow)

Featuring the author Bill Kauffman, with comments by Michael Tomasky, Editor, Guardian America.

The Cato Institute
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Conservatives love war, empire, and the military-industrial complex. They abhor peace, the sole and rightful property of liberals. Right? Wrong.

According to Bill Kauffman, true conservatives have always resisted the imperial and military impulse: it drains the treasury, curtails domestic liberties, breaks down families, and vulgarizes culture. From the Federalists who opposed the War of 1812, to the striving of Robert Taft (known as "Mr. Republican") to keep the United States out of Korea, to the latter-day libertarian critics of the Iraq war, there has historically been nothing unusual about anti-war activists on the political right. And while these critics of U.S. military crusades have been vilified by the party of George W. Bush, their conservative vision of a peaceful, decentralized, and noninterventionist America gives us a glimpse of the country we could have had—and might yet attain. Passionate and witty, Ain't My America is an eye-opening exploration of the forgotten history of right-wing peace movements—and a clarion call to anti-war conservatives of today. But Michael Tomasky, the former executive editor of the American Prospect who now edits the Guardian newspaper's American online edition, begs to differ.

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Unspun
05-23-2008, 01:35 PM
Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism (http://www.amazon.com/Aint-America-Conservatism-Middle-American-Anti-Imperialism/dp/0805082441)

I just got done reading it and it's absolutely amazing and filled with truth. I would have to put it in my top five favorite books I have read, ever. It was something I hadn't quite expected as I have never read Bill Kauffman prior, but will be looking for more of his work in the future. I implore you all to go out and purchase this book. A must read.

Watch his talk at Cato
http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=4755

Review of the book by Thomas E. Woods
http://www.takimag.com/site/article/come_home_conservatives_the_antiwar_conservative_m ovement/

Bill Kauffman reviewing The Revolution: A Manifesto
http://www.takimag.com/site/article/you_say_you_want_a_revolution/

Jeremy
05-23-2008, 01:37 PM
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