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Thomas James DiLorenzo (/ d i l ə ˈ r ɛ n z oʊ /; born August 8, 1954) is an American author and former university economics professor who is the President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He has written books denouncing President Abraham Lincoln and is well known among economists for his work chronicling the history of ...
Thomas J. DiLorenzo and Charles Adams, writing from the point of view that in academic economics is labeled anarcho-capitalist libertarianism, scavenge the documentary record in an attempt to show Lincoln as a revolutionary centralizer who used national sovereignty to establish corporate-mercantilist hegemony at the expense of genuine economic ...
Burton Blumert, Lew Rockwell, David Gordon, and Murray Rothbard The Mises Institute was founded in 1982 by Lew Rockwell , who was chief of staff to Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul ; previously Rockwell had been editor for the conservative Arlington House Publishers and had worked for the far-right John Birch Society and the traditionalist ...
Rockwell's website, LewRockwell.com, formed in 1999, features articles and blog entries by various columnists and writers. [13] Its motto is "anti-war, anti-state, pro-market". [33] There also is a weekly podcast called The Lew Rockwell Show. [34] As of March 2017, it was in the top 10,000 websites in the United States. [35]
In a 2009 review of three newly published books on Lincoln, historian Brian Dirck referred to Bennett's 2000 work and linked him with Thomas DiLorenzo, another critic of Lincoln. He wrote that "Few Civil War scholars take Bennett and DiLorenzo seriously, pointing to their narrow political agenda and faulty research."
Still, DiLorenzo's work is more of a diatribe against a mostly unnamed group of Lincoln scholars than a real historical analysis." [ 3 ] The review in Publishers Weekly called the book a "laughable screed ," and suggested that DiLorenzo's main target was "scholars who dominate American universities (most notably Eric Foner )".
Even prior to her success with The Fountainhead, the novelist Ayn Rand was a friend of both Hazlitt and his wife, Frances, and Hazlitt introduced Rand to Mises, bringing together the two figures who would become most associated with the defense of pure laissez-faire capitalism. [24] The two became admirers of Hazlitt and of one another. [25]
Thomas Di Lorenzo's contract for interior decoration amounted to $59,074.00. Joe (Corrado) Parducci worked in the New York firm of Ricci, Ardolino and Di Lorenzo as a very young man. When the firm broke up, he stayed with DiLorenzo who was an ornamentalist and Parducci was the sculptor.