About Thomas Woods Jr.
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is a senior fellow at the
Ludwig von Mises Institute.
He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and his master's, M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
His most recent book is
Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I
to George W. Bush (with Kevin R.C. Gutzman). His others include
Sacred Then and Sacred Now: The Return
of the Old Latin Mass,
33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask (Crown Forum/Random House),
the
New York Times bestseller
The Politically
Incorrect Guide to American History (Regnery),
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
(Regnery), and
The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy (Lexington).
His
critically acclaimed
2004 book
The Church Confronts Modernity was recently released in paperback by Columbia University Press.
A collection of Woods' essays, called
W obronie zdrowego rozsadku, was released exclusively in Polish in 2007.
Woods' books have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Polish, German, Korean, and Chinese.
Woods' writing has appeared in dozens of popular and scholarly periodicals, including the American
Historical Review, the Christian Science Monitor, Investor's Business Daily,
Catholic Historical Review, Modern Age, American Studies, Catholic Social Science Review,
Inside the Vatican, Human Events,
University Bookman, Journal of Markets & Morality, New Oxford Review, Catholic World Report,
Independent Review, Religion & Liberty, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines,
AD2000 (Australia), Christian Order (U.K.), Crisis, and Human Rights Review.
He is the editor of The Political Writings of Rufus Choate and of a 2003 edition of Orestes Brownson's 1875 classic
The American Republic.
Woods won first place in the prestigious Templeton Enterprise Awards
for 2006, given by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Templeton Foundation, for his book The Church
and the Market. He was the recipient of the 2004 O.P. Alford III Prize for Libertarian Scholarship and
of an Olive W. Garvey Fellowship from the Independent Institute in 2003. He has also been awarded
two Humane Studies Fellowships and a Claude R. Lambe Fellowship from the Institute for Humane
Studies at George Mason University and a Richard M. Weaver Fellowship from the Intercollegiate
Studies Institute.
Woods is the editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies and a contributing editor of The American Conservative.
For eleven years he served as associate editor of The Latin Mass magazine.
A contributor to six encyclopedias, Woods is co-editor of Exploring American History: From Colonial Times to 1877, an 11-volume encyclopedia.
Woods has appeared on Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, Fox & Friends, and The Big Story with
John Gibson, as well as on MSNBC's Scarborough Country and C-Span2's Book TV. He has been a guest
on over 150 radio programs, including Fox News Live with Alan Colmes, the G. Gordon Liddy Show,
and the Michael Medved Show. Published interviews with Woods have appeared in the Washington Post's
Live Online, Washington Times, Our Sunday Visitor, the Pittsburgh Tribune,
California Literary Review, Human Events, Italy's L'Avvenire, Spain's Alfa y Omega,
Germany's Die Tagespost, and Brazil's Folha de S. Paolo.
Woods lives in Auburn, Alabama with his wife and three daughters.
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