His new book, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, will debut at #16 (all but tied for #15, according to the list) on the New York Times bestseller list for June 15.

I can testify that the book is extremely well done, shows an acquaintance with the work of many scores of important historians, and is written in a measured rather than a polemical tone. Buchanan is challenging one of the key dogmas of the state religion. One need not agree with him on everything to respect him for that. (If Alexander Cockburn can sometimes be OK, then so can Pat.)

And because he is going after one of the state's monuments to itself, we can be assured that the pretend libertarians, whose opposition to state power is limited to price controls, farm subsidies, and similarly tame policy positions that won't get them disinvited from Ted Koppel's holiday party, will of course ignore the book altogether.