About the Author

THOMAS E. WOODS, JR. (B.A., Harvard; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia) is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. He is the author of ten books, including Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush (with Kevin R. C. Gutzman), 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask, and the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide^TM to American History and Meltdown.

Woods won the $50,000 first prize in the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards for The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy. Columbia University Press released his critically acclaimed 2004 book The Church Confronts Modernity in paperback in 2007. Woods’s books have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Polish, German, Portuguese, Croatian, Korean, Japanese, Czech, and Chinese.

Woods edited and wrote the introduction to four additional books: The Political Writings of Rufus Choate, Murray N. Rothbard’s The Betrayal of the American Right, We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now (with Murray Polner), and Orestes Brownson’s 1875 classic The American Republic. He is also the author of Beyond Distributism, part of the Acton Institute’s Christian Social Thought Series.

Woods’s writing has appeared in dozens of popular and scholarly periodicals, including Investor’s Business Daily, American Historical Review, Christian Science Monitor, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Economic Affairs (U.K.), Modern Age, American Studies, Journal of Markets & Morality, New Oxford Review, University Bookman, Catholic Social Science Review, Independent Review, Human Rights Review, and Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines. A contributor to half a dozen encyclopedias, Woods is co-editor of Exploring American History: From Colonial Times to 1877, an 11-volume encyclopedia. He is also a contributing editor of The American Conservative magazine.

Woods has appeared on FOX News Channel, MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg Television, FOX Business Network, and C-SPAN, among other outlets. He has been a guest on hundreds of radio programs, including the Dennis Miller Show, the Michael Reagan Show, the Michael Medved Show, and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and On Point.

Woods lives in Auburn, Alabama, with his wife and four daughters, and maintains a website at TomWoods.com.