The Betrayal of the American Right
{{Short description|2007 book by Murray Rothbard}}
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The Betrayal of the American Right is a book by Murray Rothbard written in the early 1970s and published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute in 2007.Rothbard, Murray N. "Preface to the 1991 Edition". [https://www.mises.org/books/betrayal.pdf The Betrayal of the American Right], edited with an Introduction by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007. p. xxi. {{ISBN|978-1933550138}}.
In it, Rothbard describes the development of the American political Old Right between the 1920s and 1950s,{{Cite journal |last=Dahdal |first=Andrew |date=2013 |title=The Betrayal of the American Right |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/peaprosfre2&id=161&div=&collection= |journal=Journal of Peace, Prosperity and Freedom |volume=2 |pages=161}} claiming that it died out in favor of a more interventionist political Right during the Cold War.{{Cite web |last=Woods |first=Thomas |title=Betrayal of the American Right Introduction and Preface |url=https://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/murray-n-rothbard/betrayal-of-the-american-right/ |access-date=2023-02-25 |website=LewRockwell |language=en}} It also describes Rothbard's own intellectual development during the period.
Summary
Rothbard describes the transformation of the American right wing over the past two decades, from an opposition movement to an establishment-supporting one. As defined in Chapter 1, "Two Rights, Old and New", the Old Right, which existed from the mid-1920s to the mid-1950s, was a libertarian, anti-establishment movement that opposed the New Deal and American global intervention abroad; the New Right, which emerged in the 1960s, embraced the establishment and its power, becoming more statist and traditional conservative in its political philosophy. Rothbard emphasizes the irony of the fact that the term "Establishment," now used as a term of opprobrium by the Left, was first applied to America by Frank S. Meyer in the National Review, a right-wing publication, as a term of bitter criticism of the establishment by the Old Right.{{Cite book |last=Rothbard |first=Murray N. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/176879949 |title=The betrayal of the American right |date=2007 |publisher=Ludwig von Mises Institute |others=Thomas E., Jr. Woods, Ludwig Von Mises Institute |isbn=978-1-933550-13-8 |location=Auburn (Ala.) |oclc=176879949}}{{Third-party inline|date=June 2023}}
References
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External links
- [https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Betrayal%20of%20the%20American%20Right_2.pdf Text (PDF)] at Ludwig von Mises Institute
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=H5l3Q1hGwnoC Text] at Google Books
- [https://cdn.mises.org/Rothbard-Betrayal-of-the-American-Right-Audiobook.zip Audio ZIP] at Ludwig von Mises Institute
- [https://soundcloud.com/misesmedia/sets/the-betrayal-of-the-american-right-murray-n-rothbard Audio] at SoundCloud
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