Great article by Jeff Tucker, from 2003: Five Books That Explain It All, which are: The Costs of War, ed. John Denson; America’s Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard, Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War by Ludwig von Mises, Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom edited by John V. Denson; and A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II by Murray N. Rothbard.
See Tucker’s article for elaboration.
