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Paul has provided a vital piece to our understanding of modern liberalism’s origins. Although both scholars and the public have discovered more about America’s original Progressives’ role in moving our country away from its fundamental constitutional principles, much less is known about the German-trained academics who transformed American universities in the second half of the nineteenth century. His work will be essential to all who wish to know about what has happened to our republic. —Ronald J. Pestritto, Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in the American Constitution at Hillsdale College and author of America Transformed: The Rise and Legacy of American Progressivism Not since the Civil War has America’s grand experiment in well-ordered liberty under the Constitution been under so great an attack. Now, many question whether that experiment has failed. Paul traces this war’s origins to the 19th-century takeover of academia and government institutions by a small group of men enamored by autocratic Germany. This powerful book details what this war is about and how it can be won. —Donald T. Critchlow, Director at the ASU Center for American Institutions and author of Revolutionary Monsters Jeffrey Paul has written a valuable history of the woke evil that is destroying our country and has rightfully located its epicenter in America’s elite academic institutions. —David Horowitz, Author of The Professors, Reforming our Universities, One-Party Classroom, and Indoctrination U

Paul has provided a vital piece to our understanding of modern liberalism’s origins. Although both scholars and the public have discovered more about America’s original Progressives’ role in moving our country away from its fundamental constitutional principles, much less is known about the German-trained academics who transformed American universities in the second half of the nineteenth century. His work will be essential to all who wish to know about what has happened to our republic. —Ronald J. Pestritto, Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in the American Constitution at Hillsdale College and author of America Transformed: The Rise and Legacy of American Progressivism Not since the Civil War has America’s grand experiment in well-ordered liberty under the Constitution been under so great an attack. Now, many question whether that experiment has failed. Paul traces this war’s origins to the 19th-century takeover of academia and government institutions by a small group of men enamored by autocratic Germany. This powerful book details what this war is about and how it can be won. —Donald T. Critchlow, Director at the ASU Center for American Institutions and author of Revolutionary Monsters Jeffrey Paul has written a valuable history of the woke evil that is destroying our country and has rightfully located its epicenter in America’s elite academic institutions. —David Horowitz, Author of The Professors, Reforming our Universities, One-Party Classroom, and Indoctrination U Winning America’s Second Civil War is a brilliant intellectual history of the causes and consequences of American progressivism. Jeffrey E. Paul demonstrates with crystal clear prose how, why, and by whom 19th-century German philosophy was imported to America in the decades after the Civil War to overturn the Founders’ liberalism. Paul’s book is the perfect antidote to the anti-Americanism of today’s collectivist Left and statist Right.  —C. Bradley Thompson, Author of America’s Revolutionary Mind

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JEFFREY E. PAUL is a research professor in the Social Philosophy and Policy Center of the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. He was previously a research professor at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona. Paul is professor emeritus at Bowling Green State University, where he played a pivotal role in the original founding of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center and was its Associate Director. He is also an executive editor of the journal Social Philosophy and Policy, published by Cambridge University Press, which has the largest circulation of any philosophy journal in the United States, Great Britain, or Canada. Paul has been a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He has published many essays in major philosophy journals and edited many philosophical collections, including Reading Nozick and Labor Law and the Employment Market.

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