THEY KEPT THESE BOOKS FROM YOU ON PURPOSE
I just brought them back, and I'm giving them to you for free.
The news may be fake, but the history is even worse. These books were suppressed for a reason.
People are more aware today than ever before of how the media distorts the news —
I could list example after example, but anyone who has reached this page can surely recall just as many.
But with history books so often just a compilation of the (fake) news, we ought to have the same skepticism here as there.
Of course the media pushes “narratives” on us, but the inane narratives of the present day (e.g., systemic racism is a major problem in America; or, public health officials did their best to fight Covid but stupid people who hate science got in their way) aren’t the only ones.
Our history is full of them, too. And very often, really old books got things right the first time, and later authors sent us down the wrong path.
For instance, the study of Reconstruction — the period immediately following the Civil War, though it got under way as the war was ending — became dominated by Marxists with the publication of Eric Foner’s 1988 book Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution.
“I’m a Marxist in that I’m powerfully influenced by Marx,” said Foner, “but I’m influenced by a lot of other things also.” (Wonderful.)
Foner considered Reconstruction to be America’s “unfinished revolution” because his leftist ideas had not been fully implemented. The revolution will be “finished” when people like Foner are satisfied, which is never.
Clyde Wilson, who edited the papers of John C. Calhoun while a professor at the University of South Carolina, says of the Foner book, “The white South does not exist in it, which is a rather big historical omission.”
And that leads us to the first volume in the Unapproved Library:
One thing Foner and his acolytes will be sure to insist to you is this: do not read William Dunning’s old book
Reconstruction: Political and Economic, 1865-1877.
It is politically incorrect, they will say, which of course means it’s telling you the truth.
Their warning alone should be enough to tell you that Dunning is worth reading, and that there’s material in
there you need to know. It’s all explained in the new foreword I commissioned from historian Brion McClanahan (Ph.D., USC) and that you’ll read when you download my Unapproved Library, which I am giving you for free.
The next one has to do with money, and are Americans ever confused on that subject.
Modern economists are going to steer you wrong. That’s a fact.
And on the news you’ll hear cheerleading for the Federal Reserve System, or at the very least you’ll see it taken for granted what a benign institution it is, and without which our economy would be wildly unstable (why, don’t you remember the bank panics of the 19th century?).
(Canada had none of those bank panics, and its central bank didn’t begin operations until 1935,
so as usual the propagandists are lying to you.)
Read William Gouge’s book
A Short History of Paper Money and Banking in the United States
and you’ll see where the instability really came from. More than that, Gouge explains the subject of money in plain English, so you can see through the propaganda you’ll encounter on the subject nowadays from all the mainstream outlets.
After all, recall what happened when Ron Paul said some kind words about the gold standard — why, this man is a crank!
Gouge goes well beyond economics in this book, though, and explores what happens to the character
of a people under a system of unsound money.
There is a reason you’ve never heard of William Gouge, and you’ll discover it once you begin reading his forbidden book.
Now here’s a really suppressed book: Abel P. Upshur’s
A Brief Enquiry into the True Nature and Character of Our Federal Government.
If there’s one thing your seventh-grade textbook really didn’t like, it’s “states’ rights” — why, that’s an idea invented by slaveholders to defend slavery!
In fact, the states’ rights tradition in America was used to defend free speech, freedom of commerce, and even the rights of the states to refuse to cooperate with slave patrols. In the 19th century, jurist Joseph Story was one of the best-known opponents of the powers of the states as sources of resistance to the federal government. His Commentaries on the Constitution was described by his followers as the definitive word on the subject.
They wish.
In fact, Story’s overrated Commentaries was demolished point by point in one of the most stunning refutations I’ve ever seen — and trust me, I’ve seen plenty of stunning refutations. That refutation is Abel Upshur’s unjustly forgotten Brief Enquiry, another volume in my Unapproved Library — which, yes, I am giving you for free.
Joseph Story’s view of the Union leads directly to Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney, and the limitless federal government we have today. Upshur’s views, which come from Thomas Jefferson, would have blocked all that, which is why you’ve never heard of him.
Read this book and you’ll discover the real, original America that the bad guys subverted.
Finally, a more modern work:
The Founders of the Republic on Immigration, Naturalization, and Aliens (1928),
an edited collection of excerpts from the Founders on what are today contentious topics.
Nowadays people speak as if large-scale immigration is part of the American tradition and that to oppose it would be downright unpatriotic, but they are basing that opinion on a poem they read on a statue.
The Founders themselves were not nearly so ideological: George Washington, for example, conceded that if the United States needed people with particular skills it would be fine to admit them, but he saw no particular need to encourage immigration.
If immigration had truly been central to the American experience, someone forgot to tell George Washington and other Founders. These four forgotten works constitute my Unapproved Library.
Until now they were very difficult to find — if you did manage to come across a PDF of one of them online, it had been scanned in from a very old book with yellowed pages and whose text was hard on the eyes. You wouldn’t get through three pages before giving up. And of course PDFs are less than ideal for e-readers no matter what the quality.
I’ve fixed this problem. Each of these four books comes in a modern, cleaned-up EPUB version perfect for e-readers (and for those who don’t use e-readers I’ve also included cleaned-up PDFs).
We rightly complain about being lied to, but sometimes the truth is just sitting there
on the shelf and we don’t realize it.
I just handed you the shelf, for free.
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