Dylan Hales on Bill Kauffman

The Left Conservative reviews the latest book by the man who "transformed [him] from a fire-breathing leftist into a decentralist 'Americanist'" — America's First Dr. No. More on the great author:

For a political junkie, the collected works of Bill Kauffman are the gateway drug to all things off limits. Emphasizing the “character “ in “character sketch, “ the typical offering from Kauffman is filled with witticisms and quirks of history ignored or discarded by “consensus historians.” Kauffman’s books focus on a variety of causes lost to time, historical memory, or executive privilege. From the anti-internationalism of J. Bracken Lee to the eco-anarchism of Edward Abbey and every point in-between, nary an obscurity or eccentricity of our political (or cultural) landscape has been overlooked by the self-professed “placeist” Kauffman, patriot son of Batavia, New York.

The three books that I have read by fellow Upsate New Yorker Bill Kauffman probably did more than any other to shape my political outlook: