Ralph Raico—student of Ludwig von Mises and colleague of Murray Rothbard—spent his life exposing the connection between war and the rise of state power. His work shows how every major conflict expanded government control and eroded liberty. The books below capture Raico's unmatched insight into how freedom is lost—and how it can be reclaimed.
Great Wars and Great Leaders
Raico demolishes the myth of the “great statesman” revealing how figures like Wilson, Churchill, FDR, and Truman, used war to expand state power. This powerful book challenges everything you’ve been taught about the 20th century—and exposes how the cult of leadership destroyed liberty.
The Struggle for Liberty: A Libertarian History of Political Thought
A sweeping intellectual history that traces the fight for liberty from antiquity through the Enlightenment. Raico highlights how conflict between church and state fostered decentralization and freedom in the West—and how modern politics betrayed those ideals.
Here, Raico unites Austrian economics and classical liberal philosophy into one accessible framework. This is the definitive primer for understanding the moral and economic foundations of a free society—written by the leading historian of the Austrian tradition.
In this remarkable lecture, Raico delivers a concise, riveting overview of the two world wars through a classical-liberal lens. He reveals how both conflicts fueled statism, debt, and propaganda—lessons as urgent today as when he first recorded them in 1983.
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