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A SUPERB LOOK LIBERTY AND LIBERTARIANISM, May 4, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Liberty: A Path to Its Recovery (Paperback)
THIS BOOK MORE THAN ANY OTHER BOOK I'VE READ ABOUT LIBERTY GIVES A CLEAR DEFINITION TO WHAT LIBERTY ACCUALLY MEANS. USING EASY TO UNDERSTAND EXAMPLES THE AUTHOR (F.A. HARPER) SHOWS THE THREATS TO LIBERTY,BOTH ECONOMIC AND PERSONAL, AND OFFERS SOLUTIONS TO REVERSING THE TRENDS. THIS BOOK WAS PUBLISHED IN 1949 AND ALTHOUGH THE AUTHOR NEVER MENTIONS FDR OR THE NEW DEAL, THIS READER DEFINITELY GOT THE IMPRESSION THAT THIS WAS A LIBERTARIAN RESPONSE TO THE SOCIALISM AND COLLECTIVISM THAT WAS PREVALENT AT THE TIME OF PUBLICATION. AFTER READING IT I WAS ASTONISHED TO LEARN THAT THE AUTHOR DR. FLOYD A.HARPER WASNT WIDELY KNOWN IN THE LIBERTARIAN WORLD. O WELL I HOPE HE CATCHES ON.
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