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Meltdown: A Free-market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2009, 194 pages, hardcover, $27.95.
The last few years have been kind to the freedom cause, at least if book sales are any evidence. First came Thomas Woods' debut in popular nonfiction, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, which rose to become the number two bestseller on Amazon.com, and occupied the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list for many weeks. Then Congressman Ron Paul published The Revolution: A Manifesto in the wake of his presidential campaign. The concise, elegantly written book was a number one...
