Robert Barnes has repeatedly and dramatically emphasized the American peoples’ profound backlash hatred, disgust and sense of betrayal concerning the country’s disastrous intervention into World War I.  This long-standing noble non-interventionist tradition began at the nations birth and continued on – through the Anti-Federalist opponents of empire and national consolidation, the principled Jeffersonians (particularly John Taylor of Caroline and John Randolph of Roanoke), The laissez-faire Jacksonian Democrats, the Anti-Imperialist League who fought the original battle against American empire during the Spanish-American War, the anti-war Old Right non-interventionist opposition to Franklin Roosevelt’s and Harry Truman’s welfare/warfare state, Murray Rothbard and the modern libertarian movement – down to Ron Paul today and elements of the America First coalition of anti-war populist nationalists.

Here are popular books from the 1930s that expressed these strong Old Right non-interventionist anti-war feelings:

The Merchants of Death

War Is A Racket

Iron, Blood and Profits: an exposure of the world-wide munitions racket

Report of the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry (The Nye Report), U.S. Congress, Senate, 74th Congress, 2nd sess., February 24, 1936, pp. 3-13.

US Senate “Merchants of Death” Congressional Hearings

Merchants of Death Revisited: Armaments, Bankers, and the First World War

The Best of Charles Burris