About the Author

While still relatively young (or so he says) at 72, Dwight D. Murphey has been writing about social, political and economic issues for over fifty years. He has for the past sixteen years been associate editor of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, assisting the indomitable Dr. Roger Pearson. Until he retired in mid-1973 after 36 years, Murphey was on the Wichita State University faculty, teaching business law. He had practiced law for eight years in Colorado before entering academia. His legal education was at the University of Denver College of Law (from which he graduated magna cum laude), and his pre-law education was at the University of Colorado, where he majored in political science. Between these college experiences, he served two years in the United States Marine Corps, and attended the graduate school of business at New York University, where he studied briefly under the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises before entering law school.

Since retiring from his faculty position, Murphey has gathered his writings together on the Web site www.dwightmurphey-collectedwritings.info Hardcopy editions of writings by him are available from Scott-Townsend Publishers, and include Understanding the United States: Illusions that Guide Contemporary America, The Dispossession of the American Indian—and Other Key Issues in American History, and Lynching: History and Analysis. Other books by Murphey include Emergent Man; Understanding the Modern Predicament, Modern Social and Political Philosophies: Burkean Conservatism and Classical Liberalism; Socialist Thought; and Liberalism in Contemporary America. A book The Emerging Crisis of Economic Displacement has been published exclusively to his Web site (although several chapters from it have been published as articles in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies).