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A C
ENTURY OF
W
AR
A C
ENTURY OF
W
AR
L
INCOLN
, W
ILSON
,
AND
R
OOSEVELT
J
OHN
V. D
ENSON
Ludwig
von Mises
Institute
AUBURN, ALABAMA
J
OHN
V. D
ENSON
practiced law as a defense trial attorney for many years
and in 1988 was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers.
In 2005, he was elected Circuit Judge. He is the editor of and a contrib-
utor to two prior books,
The Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories
and
Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline
of Freedom
. All proceeds from the sale of this book go to the Ludwig von
Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
“A Century of War” was delivered as a lecture in 1997 at the fifteenth
anniversary of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. “Abraham Lincoln and
the First Shot” and “Franklin D. Roosevelt and the First Shot” are from
Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline
of Freedom
(Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2001). “The Calamity of
World War I,” and “Another Century of War?” first appeared in the
Free-
man
, and “The Will to Peace” was originally published on LewRock-
well.com and Mises.org.
Front cover: Photo by Frank Hurley. Permission granted by the Aus-
tralian War Memorial, negative number E01220.
Copyright © 2006 Ludwig von Mises Institute
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any man-
ner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of reprints
in the context of reviews. For information write the Ludwig von Mises
Institute, 518 West Magnolia Avenue, Auburn, Alabama 36832;
www.mises.org.
ISBN: 10 digit: 1-933550-06-6
ISBN: 13 digit: 978-1-933550-06-0
T
HIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO
the courageous individuals
who will struggle against the
odds, certain vested interests,
and the power of the State to
create a will to peace in the
twenty-first century.
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