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Bill Kauffman (born November 15, 1959) is an American political writer generally aligned with the localist movement. He was born in Batavia, New York, and currently resides in Elba, New York, with his wife and daughter.
A devout Roman Catholic, Kauffman was also an intimate correspondent of the late Gore Vidal,Kauffman, Bill (2012-09-14) My Pen Pal Gore Vidal, The American Conservative with whom he shares many ideological similarities.
Other positions adopted by Kauffman that are considered controversial to both the Left and the Right include his support for the Second Vermont Republic movement,Kauffman, Bill (2005-12-19) Free Vermont, The American Conservative his admiration for 1972 Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern,Kauffman, Bill (2006-01-30) Come Home, America, The American Conservative his argument that Catholic Worker activist Dorothy Day had much in common with elements of the Right,Kauffman, Bill The Way of Love: Dorothy Day and the American Right, Whole Earth (Summer 2000) and his contention that Philip Roth's book The Plot Against America is "the novel that a neoconservatism would write, if a neoconservative could write a novel."Kauffman, Bill (2004-09-27) Heil to the Chief, The American Conservative He made the argument in his book Ain't My America that a true conservative would object to an interventionist foreign policy.
He voted for Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan in 2000. Who's Getting Your Vote?, Reason magazine In 2004 and 2008, he voted for Ralph Nader for President of the United States "because I never got the chance to vote for Gene Debs or Norman Thomas." On September 2, 2008, he addressed the Rally for the Republic in Saint Paul, Minnesota put on by Ron Paul (R-TX).Kauffman, Bill (2009-04-20) The Republic Strikes Back, The American Conservative Bill Kauffman Rally Republic - Bill Kauffman - Rally for the Republic Bill Kauffman speaks at Ron Paul's Rally for the Republic, Target Center, Minneapolis, MN, September 2, 2008., user-created clip at C-Span
Writings
His books include Every Man a King (1989), a novel about a young senatorial aide who, disgusted with politics, returns to his rural New York hometown to start a new life; Country Towns of New York (1993), a travel book; America First!: Its History, Politics, and Culture (1995), a history of American populism, isolationism, and anti-imperialism thought; With Good Intentions?: Reflections on the Myth of Progress in America (1998), a collection of (often approving) profiles of the opponents of school consolidation, child labor laws, a standing army, women's suffrage, and the Interstate Highway System, as well as the proponents of homesteading as a means of battling the Great Depression; Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette: A Mostly Affectionate Account of a Small Town’s Fight to Survive (2003), the story of Batavia and its decline; Look Homeward America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists (2006), a meditation on American political, literary, and artistic figures whose values he admires; and Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Anti-War Conservatism and Middle American Anti-Imperialism (2008). Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin, was published in 2008 by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. It was followed by Bye Bye, Miss American Empire (2010), a study of secessionist movements; by a book reprinting his screenplay for Copperhead; and by the essay collection Poetry Night at the Ballpark (2015). He also edited A Story of America First (2003), a memoir by America First Committee congressional liaison Ruth Sarles Benedict, and The Congressional Journal of Barber B. Conable, Jr. (2021), and he co-edited the 2010 anthology ComeHomeAmerica.us: Historic and Current Opposition to U.S. Wars and How a Coalition of Citizens from the Political Right and Left Can End American Empire.
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