• "Well written, well researched, and the thesis put forth is well argued.... Woods has opened up an area of historical analysis that should invite further study."
    -Journal of American History

  • "During these times that challenge our freedoms there is no one more qualified to make U.S. history relevant to the fight against big government than Thomas Woods."
    -Barry Goldwater Jr.
    Former Member of Congress

  • "I strongly recommend Woods's work."
    -The Honorable Ron Paul,
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • "Written with great clarity and fluency, making the complex philosophical and theological concepts approachable."
    -Journal of American Studies

  • "A must-read."
    -Barron's

  • "An excellent reading source for anyone interested in financial markets, and much more so for anyone interested in learning about capitalism without all the misinterpretations being thrown about in the financial media."
    -Asia Times

  • "Provocative, well-written, and deserves to be read."
    -Catholic Historical Review

  • "An engaging and important contribution to scholarship on the history of American Catholicism."
    -Journal of the Historical Society

  • "Woods and [co-author Kevin] Gutzman appeal to both left and right in this constitutionalist jeremiad…. The authors' exegeses of the Constitution and court decisions, heavy on original intent arguments, are lucid and telling."
    -Publishers Weekly

  • "A marvelous read. Every chapter taught me something new and unexpected."
    -Tom Bethell, senior editor,
    The American Spectator

  • "The hottest book today is Meltdown, by my friend Tom Woods."
    -Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst,
    FOX News Channel

  • "Should be required reading."
    -Economic Affairs (London)

  • "Woods, one of the best classical liberal [libertarian] scholars of his generation, has once more placed us in his debt with this lucid and tightly argued book."
    -David Gordon, The Mises Review

  • "Tom Woods is one of my dearest allies in the struggle against wrong-headed and dangerous economic policy."
    -Peter Schiff

Who Killed the Constitution?

Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. and Kevin R.C. Gutzman

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“If you want to know why the federal government regulates the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the words you speak, read Who Killed the Constitution? This is a no-holds-barred, no-nonsense, non-ideological, profound analysis of why and how those in whose custody we have reposed the Constitution, those who have taken oaths to uphold it, have not only avoided preserving it but have intentionally exterminated it. When the history of these unfree times is written, Tom Woods and Kevin Gutzman’s fearless work will be recognized as the standard against which all others are measured.”

-Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News senior judicial analyst and author of The Constitution in Exile

“It’s about time someone shouted out that the emperor has no clothes. And hasn’t had any since 1861, when the federal government started to shred the Constitution and saw that it could get away with it. Over the next century and a half, Washington steadily marginalized the document in pursuit of an ever-greater empire, and today it rules with virtually no constitutional justification at all – as this very useful book so persuasively points out.”
-Kirkpatrick Sale, Director, The Middlebury Institute, and author of Human Scale

“Woods and Gutzman (two bestselling authors in the Politically Incorrect Guide series) appeal to both left and right in this constitutionalist jeremiad. Liberals will agree about the unconstitutionality of the draft, warrantless wiretapping and presidential signing statements. Conservatives will agree about the unconstitutionality of school busing, bans on school prayer and Roosevelt’s suspension of the gold standard. The common thread is the authors’ brief for a federal government strictly limited to the powers explicitly granted by the Constitution. The authors’ exegeses of the Constitution and court decisions, heavy on original intent arguments, are lucid and telling.”
-Publishers Weekly

“Both sobering and frightening…. If you want to learn how a government strictly limited in its powers has devolved into a government restrained by little more than what it can get away with, you need to read this book…. Should be required reading in every high school and college in America.”
-WorldNetDaily

Related links:
My own discussion of the book
Review at WorldNetDaily
My discussion of the book at the Mises Institute’s Mises University program (mp3)
Review by The American Spectator
Interview with Antiwar Radio (mp3)

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