Lecture series · recorded 1998
Reassessing the Presidency
Reassessing the Presidency is a free lecture series (18 recordings, 10 hours) you can stream or download at freecapitalists.org, with 18 speakers.
Lectures discussing the much neglected reality that the executive department of the U.S. government has always been the sum total of the American welfare-warfare state. Hosted at Callaway Gardens, Georgia; October 16-17, 1998.
U.S. HistoryWar and Foreign PolicyBiographiesBig GovernmentMoney and BanksMedia and CultureWorld HistoryLegal SystemThe Entrepreneur
Cover painting: George Washington reviews the militia army against the Whiskey Rebellion, Carlisle, October 1794. See every painting in the art gallery.
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From Bad to Worse: Interventionist Bias in Conventional Presidential Rankings 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004.
Capital and Interest TheoryInterventionismPolitical Theory
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31:26 Download MP3
The Use of George Washington in the Statist Offensive 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004.
Political TheoryBiographies
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31:59 Download MP3
Reluctant Imperialism? William Howard Taft and the Colonial Empire 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (31:58)
InterventionismPolitical TheoryBig Government
Read the transcript 3,725 words
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25:42 Download MP3
Presidential Use and Abuse of the Sherman Act: Cleveland to Clinton 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (25:41)
EntrepreneurshipMonopoly and CompetitionPolitical TheoryThe EntrepreneurLegal System
Read the transcript 3,184 words
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Lincoln and the Trimuph of Mercantilism 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (33:49)
Monopoly and CompetitionPolitical TheoryBiographiesU.S. History
Read the transcript 5,266 words
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The Warren Commision: A Rothbardian Analysis 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (27:02)
Political TheoryPraxeologyLegal System
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The Electoral College as a Brake on Presidential Power: Its Evolution From Washington to Jackson 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (31:15)
Political Theory
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The Supreme Court as Accomplice: Judicial Backing for Executive Power 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (28:27)
Political TheoryLegal System
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21:04 Download MP3
Unimagined Power: The Presidency in the History of Political Philosophy 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004.
Philosophy and MethodologyPolitical TheoryBig Government
Read the transcript 2,921 words
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44:15 Download MP3
The President as Social Engineer 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (44:14)
Political TheoryPraxeologyBig GovernmentMedia and Culture
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43:27 Download MP3
Harry Truman and the Imperial Presidency 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. [43:26]
Political TheoryBiographies
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30:33 Download MP3
Woodrow Wilson's Revolution Within the Form 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (30:32)
Political TheoryBiographiesLegal System
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33:22 Download MP3
Despotism Loves Company: The Story of Roosevelt and Stalin 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (38:46)
Political TheoryBiographiesWar and Foreign PolicyWorld History
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32:00 Download MP3
Teddy Roosevelt and the Origins of the Modern Welfare-Warfare State 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (31:59)
Political TheoryBiographiesU.S. HistoryWar and Foreign Policy
Read the transcript 4,791 words
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40:46 Download MP3
Presidential Money Mismanagement from FDR to Nixon 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (40:45)
Fiscal TheoryPolitical TheoryBiographiesMoney and Banks
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29:20 Download MP3
Martin van Buren: What Greatness Really Means 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (29:19)
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30:29 Download MP3
William McKinley: Architect of the American Empire 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (30:28)
Political TheoryBig GovernmentBiographiesU.S. History
Read the transcript 4,793 words
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47:27 Download MP3
The Impossibility of Limited Government: The Prospects for a Second American Revolution 1998
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (47:26)
Political TheoryBig GovernmentU.S. History
Read the transcript 5,149 words
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Speakers
David Gordon, George Bittlingmayer, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, James Dunlap, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Joseph R. Stromberg, Joseph T. Salerno, Marshall DeRosa, Michael Levin, Paul Gottfried, Ralph Raico, Randall G. Holcombe, Richard Gamble, Richard Vedder, Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Thomas J. DiLorenzo, William Marina, Yuri N. Maltsev.
Recording dates, summaries and topics for 18 of these 18 lectures come from the Mises Institute's page for Reassessing the Presidency, checked 2026-08-04.
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- Is Reassessing the Presidency free to listen to?
- Yes. All 18 mirrored recordings stream in the browser or download as audio, at no cost and with no signup.
- How long is Reassessing the Presidency?
- 18 recordings, 10 hours in total.
- Who lectures in Reassessing the Presidency?
- David Gordon, George Bittlingmayer, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, James Dunlap, and 14 others.
- When was Reassessing the Presidency recorded?
- 1998, per the recording dates recovered for this series.
- Is there a transcript of Reassessing the Presidency?
- Yes. Every lecture in the series has one, 79,457 words in total, free to read on each lecture's page and searchable in the browser.
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