best of recently explored authors: William Marina

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/marina7.html Missing Officers by William Marina - july 2005

http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=951 23 articles

http://www.why-war.com/news/author.php?name=William+Marina 7 articles from 2004

William Marina teaches History at Florida Atlantic University and is an Adjunct Scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He has written extensively on the American Revolution as a People’s War.

http://www.why-war.com/news/2004/11/15/empiresa.html William Marina -
Empires as ages of religious ignorance; George W Bush's crusade and American fundamentalism
November 15, 2004
What is less understood is that all of the great empires in history have been characterized by a decline of reason and an increase in super-naturalist faith, combined with a belief in the empire with the emperor holding God’s “mandate” on earth.