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I'm a Winner! (Black Maverick and From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State)
I'm going to party tonight! This morning comes two pieces of great news. First a committee of distinguished scholars at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation has selected my book, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967 (2000), as one of the ten top pro-liberty books of the decade.

Also, Damon Root, at Reason, has has this to say about my most recent book (co-authored by Linda Royster Beito):

But my vote for the year’s best book goes to David and Linda Beito’s landmark biography Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power. Howard was a wealthy doctor, entrepreneur, and mutual aid leader who championed civil rights, capitalism, and armed self-defense amidst the lawlessness and state-sanctioned violence of Jim Crow Mississippi. As Black Maverick convincingly shows, no history of the civil rights movement is complete until it acknowledges Howard’s indispensable contributions.

Thank you

All of your congratulations mean a lot to me!

Yes!

David and Linda: You have a lot to be proud of. Your work on mutual aid societies has had enormous ripple effects. (I never sat down and read it, although I looked through it when you came to visit; I had heard about it for years.) I agree that Black Maverick was extremely well done, as I'll be indicating in an upcoming review.

works for me

Congratulations! It's well-deserved.

Raise a toast...

To David (and co-author Linda of Black Maverick) for two outstanding books and well-deserved citations.

Ditto

Both kudos are very well deserved David. Two excellent books.

Congradulations David

I wholeheartly agree with committee's choice and the review.