Martin Van Buren: The American Gladstone, Reassessing the Presidency, 2001
Related Topics: Martin Van Buren, Democratic Party
"Van Buren was a lawyer-president who represented a new breed of professional politician. ... a close examination of Van Buren's four years in office reveals that historians have grossly underrated his many remarkable accomplishments against heavy odds. These, in my opinion, rank Martin Van Buren as the greatest president in American history."

Martin Van Buren: The Greatest American President [PDF], The Independent Review, 1999
Related Topic: Martin Van Buren
"While avoiding foreign wars, he ... reduced the power and reach of central authority in the face of stiff resistance ... Americans once enjoyed greater freedom from government intervention than any other people. For that accomplishment, Martin Van Buren deserves as much credit as any other single individual ..."

Not Just Japanese Americans: The Untold Story of U.S. Repression During 'The Good War', The Journal of Historical Review, 1986
Related Topic: World War II
"All the aforementioned events, entailing enormous gains for State power, occurred ... at a time when the United States was technically at peace. The Japanese attack ... merely accelerated the civil liberties trends already in motion. ... The internment of Japanese-Americans was ... representative of a wartime administration that respected civil liberties only so far as political expediency required."

Books Authored

Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War, 1996

ISBN 0812693116: Hardcover, Open Court Publishing Company, 1996
ISBN 0812693124: Paperback, Open Court Publishing Company, 1996