This weekend I carved out some time to read a good chunk of Ralph Raico’s excellent new book Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal, which brings together (often in expanded form) some of the author’s writings that have appeared in various outlets over the years. When people ask me for living historians I admire, I always mention Ralph Raico, whom I first met at a seminar in 1992. His work reminds me why I am a historian: in a world of propaganda, I want to be a truth-teller. You will walk away from this book with the conviction … Continue reading Rethinking the Twentieth Century