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141 Joseph R. Stromberg, "Harry Elmer Barnes (1889-1968): Progressive and Revisionist." 7 February 2000. Online at http://www.antiwar.com/stromberg/ s020700.html

142 Harry Elmer Barnes, "Revisionism and the Historical Blackout" in Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: A Critical Examination of the Foreign Policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Its Aftermath, ed. Harry Elmer Barnes (Caldwell, ID: Caxton, 1953), p. 7.

143 Harry Elmer Barnes, "Revisionism: A Key to Peace" in Revisionism: A Key to Peace and Other Essays, ed. James J. Martin (San Francisco: Cato Institute, 1980), p. 1.

144 William Appleman Williams, "Confessions of an Intransigent Revisionist" in A William Appleman Williams Reader: Selections from his Major Historical Writings, ed. Henry W. Berger (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1992), p. 338. [emphasis in original]

145 Warren I. Cohen, The American Revisionists: The Lessons of Intervention in World War I (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967), p. vii. [emphasis added]

146 Richard Hofstadter, The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington (New York: Knopf, 1969), p. xiv.

147 Barnes, "Revisionism: A Key to Peace," op.cit., pp. 1-2.

148 Barnes, A History of Historical Writing, op.cit., p. 355.

149 Harry Elmer Barnes, History and Social Intelligence (New York: Revisionist Press, 1972 [1926]), p. 271.

150 Ibid., pp. 294, 293.

151 Peter Novick, op.cit., p. 178.

152 Ibid., p. 98.

153 Andrew J. Bacevich, American Empire: The Realities & Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), p. 13.

154 Marguerite J. Fisher, "Harry Elmer Barnes: An Overall Preview" in Harry Elmer Barnes, Learned Crusader: The New History in Action, ed. Arthur Goddard (Colorado Springs, CO: Ralph Myles, 1968), pp. 1, 3, 4.

155 See Harry Elmer Barnes, ed. Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, op.cit., p. 2.

156 Fisher, op.cit., p. 15

157 William L. Neumann, "Harry Elmer Barnes as World War I Revisionist" in Harry Elmer Barnes, Learned Crusader, op.cit., p. 262.

158 Cohen, op.cit., p. 2.

159 Neumann, op.cit., pp. 266, 268-269, 270, 272, 279.

160 Bacevich, op.cit., pp. 14-15, 11, 16.

161 Ibid., p. 11.

162 James J. Martin, "History and Social Intelligence" in Harry Elmer Barnes, Learned Crusader, op.cit., pp. 241, 246.

163 Cohen, op.cit., p. ix.

164 Barnes, "Revisionism: A Key to Peace," op.cit., pp. 10, 11.

165 Fisher, op.cit., pp. 17, 21.

166 Ibid., p. 21.

167 Bacevich, op.cit., p. 12.

168 Henry M. Adams, "World War II Revisionist" in Harry Elmer Barnes, Learned Crusader, op.cit., pp. 295, 303.

169 Harry Elmer Barnes, "Revisionism and the Historical Blackout," op.cit., p. 58.

170 Bacevich, op.cit., p. 23.

171 Paul M. Buhle and Edward Rice-Maximin, William Appleman Williams: The Tragedy of Empire (New York: Routledge, 1995), p. 37.

172 Novick, op.cit., p. 346.

173 Bacevich, op.cit., p. 23.

174 William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (New York: Dell, 1972 [1959]), pp. 206, 15.

175 Robert James Maddox, The New Left and the Origins of the Cold War (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 15.

176 Williams, Tragedy of American Diplomacy, op.cit., p. 239.

177 Maddox, op.cit., p. 16.

178 Bacevich, op.cit., p. 24.

179 Novick, op.cit., p. 418.

180 Joseph R. Stromberg, "William Appleman Williams: Premier New Left Revisionist." 16 November 1999. Online at http://www.antiwar.com/stromberg/s111699.html

181 Henry W. Berger, "Introduction" in A William Appleman Williams Reader, op.cit., p. 28-29.

182 Bacevich, op.cit., p. 24.

183 Maddox, op.cit., p. 13.

184 See, for example, William O. Reichert, Partisans of Freedom: A Study in American Anarchism (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1976), pp. viii-ix. See also David DeLeon, The American As Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978), p. 173.

185 "Introducing Revisionism: An Interview with James J. Martin." Reason January 1976, pp. 14-15.

186 Ibid., p. 14.

187 Llewellen H. Rockwell, Jr., "The Wisdom of LeFevre." July 2001. Online at http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=362&sortorder=articledate

188 Robert LeFevre, A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Vol. 2. (Culver City, CA: Pulpless.com, 1999), p. 475.

189 Buhle and Rice-Maximin, op.cit., p. 117.

190 Novick, op.cit., p. 420.

191 Ronald Radosh, Prophets on the Right: Profiles of Conservative Critics of American Globalism (New York: Free Life Editions, 1978 [1975]), pp. 11, 25. 40.

192 Novick, op.cit., pp. 420, 179.

193 Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard, A Basic History of the United States (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1944), pp. 316-319.

194 Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism (New York: Free Press, 1963), p. 5.

195 Childs, op.cit., pp. 30-31.

196 Chris Haines, "Gore's Wars." Salon 14 January 1998. Online at http://www.sakm.com/books/int/1998/01/cov_si_141nt.html

197 Vidal, The Golden Age, op.cit., pp. 466, 467.

198 Gore Vidal, "Japanese Intentions in the Second World War" in The Last Empire: Essays, 1992-2000 (New York: Doubleday, 2001), p. 462.

199 At least one other author also saw its appropriateness between Barnes and Vidal. This is longtime University of Texas historian Robert A. Divine, whose Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published in 2000 by Texas A&M University Press. I am indebted to Jeffrey Rogers Hummel for information about this volume.

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