The Myth of a Guilty Nation

NOCK, ALBERT JAY

History

Franklin Classics

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Literature & Fiction

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LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com.  Here is Albert Jay Nock's classic study on the life and thought of Thomas Jefferson, a book which draws out points other biographers have missed: his radicalism, his opposition to all centralized government, his attachment to liberty and property, and his dedication to the idea of revolution. In the process, Nock tells a story of the founding that you have likely never heard.

Jefferson

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Here is social and intellectual criticism at its best. — Jacques Barzun This collection is the first chosen from Albert Jay Nock's entire work and the first new collection in nearly thirty-five years. It includes his best-known essays, some outstanding but neglected articles, and previously unpublished material.

The State of the Union

Liberty Press

The State of the Union: Essays in Social Criticism

Liberty Fund

Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of society, state, economy, and culture, and does so almost inadvertently.  His stories, lessons, observations, and conclusions pack a very powerful punch, so much so that anyone who takes time to read carefully cannot but end up changed in intellectual outlook. One feels that one has been let in a private club of people who see more deeply than others. This is truly an American classic.  If a regime of complete economic freedom can be established, social and political freedom will follow automatically; and until it is established neither social nor political freedom can exist. Here one comes in sight of the reason why the State will never tolerate the establishment of economic freedom. In a spirit of sheer conscious fraud, the State will at any time offer its people “four freedoms,” or six, or any number; but it will never let them have economic freedom. If it did, it would be signing its own death-warrant, for as Lenin pointed out, “It is nonsense to make any pretense of reconciling the State and liberty.” Our economic system being what it is, and the State being what it is, all the mass verbiage about “the free peoples” and “the free democracies” is merely so much obscene buffoonery. —Albert Jay Nock

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

Memoirs

Henry Regnery Company

Military

Legare Street Press

The Myth of a Guilty Nation, by American libertarian, author, and social critic, Albert Jay Nock, was originally published in 1922. The work is Nock's first anti-war book, an anti-war sentiment he pursued for the rest of his career, and took to be a core component of his libertarian worldview. Nock takes American war propaganda to be built on falsehood, and that the real purpose of the war was to not liberate Europe from German imperialism, a fact clearly contradicted by United States diplomatic cables.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Independently published

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The Myth Of A Guilty Nation (1922)

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

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