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Today this is even more true. The heirs of Adam Smith and the British Empire are pressing for worldwide adoption of free trade, a system which led to slavery in the 19th century, and would do so again today. And certain U.S. political circles are even openly demanding a return to the principles and Constitution of the Confederacy.

Utilizing a rich selection of primary-source documents, Salisbury reintroduces the forgotten men of the Civil War-era battle for the American System: Mathew Carey, his son and successor Henry Carey, William Kelley, William Elder, and Stephen Colwell. Together with Abraham Lincoln, they demanded industrial technological progress, against the ideological subversion of British "free trade" economists and the British-dominated Confederacy.

Salisbury highlights the career of Henry C. Carey, who, as Lincoln's leading economic advisor, acted to prevent a complete City of London banker's takeover of the United States political-economic system.

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Vive La Revolution

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This book is essential reading for laymen, historians and economists. Primary source material is used to illustrate in direct and uncompromising fashion the ongoing battle between the Imperial financial and hereditary oligarchy and global pro-nation state Republican forces. The masterful juxtaposition of the free and fair trade arguments of the American colonists and their constitutional commitment to national and individual sovereignty is never more valid and relevant than today, as we witness the last stages of the criminalization of the US government and it's geopolitical gyrations. Concerned citizens of all nations must educate themselves by means of such works of universal history, forsaking the sanitised establishment lies.