From The Tom Woods Letter:
This is too good.
I’ve had a fun relationship with Max Boot over the years.
Max makes John McCain look like George McGovern.
Max wanted to offer citizenship to people who would come to America and enlist in the military. (How else is he going to get the manpower for all his wars?)
But as far back as 2005, when our feud began, he had a basically establishment view of American history — which is why he despised and panned my book The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.
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My insufficient disdain for the bogeymen of neoconservatism — Germans and southerners — doomed my book from the start. Boot was shocked that I thought Woodrow Wilson had a double standard in his treatment of the British and the Germans prior to American entry into World War I, yet my point is so eminently defensible as to be scarcely debatable.
He said I was “particularly upset about the 14th Amendment (he claims it was never lawfully ratified) because it barred former Confederates from holding political office.” As you can see from reading the book for yourself, this is false. He made that up.
I did side with historian Forrest McDonald, who showed pretty convincingly that the Fourteenth Amendment was not constitutionally ratified — a position that even U.S. News and World Report admitted was probably correct (but then said we should just try harder not to do that next time).
McDonald was the Jefferson Lecturer of the National Endowment of the Humanities — the highest honor in the humanities that the U.S. government bestows. Too extreme for Max Boot, though.
The rest was…