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Deeply inaccurate and ignorant view of history, economics and Buchanan especially. It does the author's arguments no good to misquote and misrepresent her ideological opponents. For example, she says with regards to Jim Crow laws "Buchanan and Nutter were more direct, stating their belief that 'every individual should be free to associate with persons of his own choosing'--the sanitized phrasing of segregationists." The problem with this quote is two-fold. First, her implication is that they were racist segregationists. They weren't and the fact she couldn't come up with an actual quote by them saying so is telling. I'm sure she looked. Second, the phrase she picks is one used by those who opposed Jim Crow. Yep, it means almost the opposite of what she implies. The Jim Crow laws were the government telling blacks and whites they couldn't associate with each other. If people had the freedom to choose their own associations, then they would be free to associate with people of another race, you know, that behavior racist government officials tried to prevent using the Jim Crow laws! The references to economics history in the book are even worse, as if she'd never taken even a single history of economics course and isn't familiar with what major figures in the field actually wrote and believed. You don't have to disagree with her positions based on this book, but you will be laughed out of any serious discussion if you try to cite some of the supposed "facts" in it.