Comments (5)

• Kenneth R. Gregg

  Woods certainly deserves the prize. I’ve read his works and I think he deserves credit for his accommplishments. “The Church and The Market” and “The Church Confronts Modernity” are excellent additions to the modern literature on the free market and its relationship to the Catholic Church. While, of course, there are issues which he does not address in the books, the issues that he does cover are well done.

  I knew he was an historian worth reading when one of his first footnotes in "The Church Confronts Modernity" was to one of my favorite works, T. Jackson Lears'
  No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture: 1880-1920", as well as "I'll Take My Stand". Any historian who understands the importance of these works is on his way to a great grasp of American culture!
  Just a thought.
  Just Ken
  kgregglv@cox.net
  http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com

  Published: February 14, 2007 1:13 PM

• David C

  Wow! This is exactly what the Catholic Church needs. In fact, I would go further. It was the Catholic Church that taught me in Catholic schools about the Holy Spirit nature of God, and human free will. They ARE a doctrine of faith. How they could start out assuming that part of God's nature on faith and end up with all these economic/political philosophies that treat human action as a greedy, inherently evil, poor-people hating beast that must be beaten low is beyond belief. Worst of all, I get that anti faith sewage shoved down my throat in Church!

  Published: February 14, 2007 8:07 PM

• Dan Coleman

  Way to go, Thomas! Congratulations!

  Published: February 15, 2007 8:32 AM

• N. Joseph Potts

  Woods scored a well-deserved New York Times Best-Seller with his Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, possibly exceeding at least in impact the books of his discussed above.

  And, even better, ANOTHER Mises scholar's Politically Incorrect Guide is released TODAY (February 15), this one to CAPITALISM. It is by none other than Robert Murphy.

  My copy is on pre-order (Amazon), and I can't wait for it to arrive. Better clear out another place on that NYT Best-Seller's list!

  Published: February 15, 2007 9:45 AM

• Tom Woods

  Thanks to everyone for the kind comments. (I've been traveling all day and just saw them now.) And yes, Bob Murphy's book promises to be excellent, though its official release date is April 25. The most recent PIG, which was released this very week, is The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism).

  Published: February 16, 2007 2:19 AM