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✍️ Original author: Ryan McMaken

Contained within Rothbard’s multi-volume history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty, is an extended argument against the conservative narrative on the American Revolution and the French Revolution. Writing in the 1960s, Rothbard was addressing what was then a common claim among conservatives about the revolution: that it was a conservative, restrained, and almost gentlemanly revolution that sought only to preserve and restore what had already been established. It was the British regime that was “revolutionary,” we are told, and it was the American revolutionaries who were simply

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