Mises Wire
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Dave Benner
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How is it that America became a “strong but limited” government, and the world’s richest and most free country? That is the central question both considered and answered by Luigi Marco Bassani in his new work, Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government, 1776 – 1865 . As an eminent scholar, Bassani has long studied the