The Great Madness: A Victory for the American Plutocracy by Scott Nearing (originally published in 1917), annotated by Greg Joly, foreword by Colman McMarthy (2008).

This annotated edition is Back in Print. A ‘scathing analysis of how the business class gained control of the inner workings of the US government and were thus able to meld nationalist patriotism into a military preparedness which finally leads to an open declaration of war. Due to the outspokenness of this pamphlet, Nearing was trailed by the Federal government,’ leading to his private residence being searched and his arrest and trial. ‘This fully annotated text’ by American historian and Nearing scholar Greg Joly, ‘will give the reader a sharper sense of Nearing’s era and his principled anti-war stance’ (edited from the back of the printing).