Millionaire Republican: Why Rich Republicans Get Rich--and How You Can Too! [Hardcover]

Wayne Allyn Root (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 6, 2005

Rush Limbaugh meets Napoleon Hill in these fifteen counterintuitive rules for creating personal wealth in the new Republican-dominated era.

Currently, the GOP controls the United States presidency, Congress, Senate, Supreme Court, and the majority of governorships and statehouses. That will NOT change.

Americans are moving in droves to red states, states where government is smaller, taxes are lower, jobs are plentiful, churches abound, and small businesses are thriving. Blue states will continue to lose population, government funding, electoral votes, and political prominence. What will remain are two Americas: red states full of young, vibrant risk-takers with high incomes, advanced levels of education, strong marriages, and high church attendance. Blue states, on the other hand, are often marked by decaying, high-crime areas with older populations, infrastructures in disrepair, and sluggish business growth.

How can you succeed and plan to thrive in a Republican future? Professional sports handicapper and radio host Wayne Allyn Root reveals the new Republican rules, which include:

- Relocate to red states.
- Invest in business and buy stocks to capitalize on Social Security privatization.
- Buy real estate-it is your foundation for wealth and security.
- Invest in foreign real estate.
- Understand how charitable giving will help you become a Millionaire Republican.
- Learn to appreciate "the joy of failure."

The real key to becoming a Millionaire Republican is to do the opposite of what the masses do. Millionaire Republican shows readers how to harness the current political, business, and social winds to create a unique plan to achieve prosperity and success.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Root, author of The Zen of Gambling, has made millions as a television sports-betting handicapper. This chest-thumping political screed-cum motivational tract systematizes that accomplishment into "The 18 Republican Secrets of Mega-Wealth and Unlimited Success"-a hodgepodge of self-help nostrums about positive thinking, clean living and the centrality of salesmanship to all human achievement, with a smattering of financial opportunism. (Secret #3 is "Own Real Estate in International Tax Havens.") But Root also aspires to public office, so he devotes most of the book to partisan vitriol. Republicans, he asserts, are "daring risk-takers" whose "ambition, drive, vision, courage, confidence and commitment" prompts them to start businesses and enter the "Investor Class." Democrats, deluded by "corrupt, soulless" liberals, prefer a "'safe' (but mediocre) paycheck" to the challenge of entrepreneurship and therefore lead "lives of despair...working in jobs they hate for bosses they despise...dependent on Big Brother" and are reduced to "complaining, whining, attending protests" and taxing Republicans. Throughout, the author seethes with class resentment against the even wealthier "spoiled-brat trust-fund crowd," who supposedly advocate high taxes on the rich to keep others from becoming rich. Root is rarely coherent or engaging; the book feels like an infomercial harangue interspersed with the sort of off-the-wall rant you would expect if you asked your bookie for his political philosophy. In it, one can make out the tenets of contemporary casino capitalism: the risk-taking investor is the hero of the economy, wage labor is a dead-end for suckers and the millionaire is the champion of the little guy against the elitists. Never mind liberal democrats; Republicans themselves may cringe at this ugly, fatuous rendering of their world-view.
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Review

...Root outlines the Republican principles that can help even some educable Democrats achieve their dreams of wealth. -- Michael Medved, nationally syndicated talk radio host

Millionaire Republican is Chicken Soup for the Soul of the Republican Party...Root makes you proud to be a Republican again! -- The Honorable Jack Kemp

It doesn't matter if you're...Republican or...Democrat. Everyone wants to make it in America. Millionaire Republican shows you how. -- Ari Fleischer, former Bush White House Press Secretary and bestselling author of Taking Heat

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Tarcher (October 6, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585424307
• ISBN-13: 978-1585424306
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,411,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Wayne Allyn Root is one of the most charismatic, colorful, passionate, fiery, and outspoken political personalities in America today. Wayne was the 2008 Libertarian Party Vice Presidential nominee. A college classmate of Barack Obama at Columbia University (Class of '83), he is now the face and voice of Libertarian-conservative politics in the mainstream national media. The media calls him "the Anti-Obama." Wayne calls himself a REAGAN LIBERTARIAN- modeled after his heroes Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater and Thomas Jefferson.

He is regular guest on many of the biggest television and radio networks in America including: FOX News Channel, FOX Business Network, CNBC, and radio shows like Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Jerry Doyle and Mancow Muller. Wayne recently added his own radio talk show, "W.A.R: The Wayne Allyn Root Show."

Wayne's political and business careers have been profiled by CNBC, CNN/Money, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TIME magazine, Newsweek, Fortune, Equities, The Financial Times, Millionaire, Success, Entrepreneur, Worth, The Robb Report, and even Emmy magazine (among many others).