The book features brief summary chapters, with useful references, from the Loyola University economics professor, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, and member of the Mont Pelerin Society, weighing in on such topics as Our Totalitarian Regulatory Bureaucracy; Socialized Health Care vs. the Laws of Economics; Distorting History in the Service of the State; Central Banking as an Engine of Corruption; How the Fed Creates Unemployment; The Inherent Violence of Unions; The Myth of Government Job Creation; The Myth of the Male/Female Wage Gap, etc.

Of course, Professor DiLorenzo is best known as the dedicated debunker of the myth of "Honest Abe the Rail-Splitter." In his books "The Real Lincoln" (2002) and "Lincoln Unmasked" (2007) he challenges the astounding and ongoing effort to paint as a saint America's first great tyrant, the railroad lawyer who caused the unnecessary deaths of 600,000 of this nation's citizens, meanwhile jailing scores of opposition newspaper editors IN THE NORTH for opposing his illegal war, the astonishing character who arrested and jailed in military prisons without trial newly elected members of the Maryland state Legislature whom he suspected of harboring secessionist tendencies, under whom a Northern Virginia preacher was punished for failing to include a prayer for the President of the United States in his Sunday sermon as required by law, and under whose authority a resident of the city of New Orleans was EXECUTED for merely taking down an American flag.