Salvos Against the New Deal [Paperback]

Garet Garrett (Author), Bruce Ramsey (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2007

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press

In response to the Great Depression FDR rolled out the collection of sweeping reforms known as the New Deal - and few dared to oppose them.  However, Saturday Evening Post columnist Garet Garrett believed that the reforms would permanently alter and damage the American way of life - so, at great risk to his own career - oppose them he did.

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"This selection of essays show economic journalist Garet Garrett, a member of the pre-Cold War Old Right, at his best."—John Attarian, The American Enterprise

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An important work that compiles some of the most insightful commentary from one of the Libertarian movement's first nationally known writers.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Caxton Press (May 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870044257
• ISBN-13: 978-0870044250
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,050,951 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars He who forgets the past . . . . ., November 3, 2003

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This review is from: Salvos Against the New Deal (Paperback)

Bruce Ramsey does an excellent job of resurrecting writings that were quite well known at the time, but have become obscure by virtue of the New Deal's political conquest over the Constitution and all of America. What we now accept blindly from our "leaders" was once highly controversial and didn't need to happen. We ignore the writings of Garet Garrett at our own peril.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heroic Writings During a Difficult Time, December 23, 2003

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This review is from: Salvos Against the New Deal (Paperback)

How wonderful it is to find this hefty volume of writings by the heroic Garet Garrett! For some 30 years, I've read about Garrett and his polemical battles against FDR and his statist New Deal, but all you could find by him was THE PEOPLE'S POTTAGE (an excellent book, but just a smidgen of Garrett's work). Now Bruce Ramsey has assembled this 300-page sampling of some of Garrett's best political writing from the Saturday Evening Post. Three cheers for Garet Garrett, and another three cheers for Ramsey! This lone, inexpensive volume will give you a very different view of just how "compassionate" a president Roosevelt was.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Collection Of Essays Showing The Downside Of The New Deal, August 23, 2005

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Michael A. Wolff (St. Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This is a great collection of essays against the entire New Deal program and philosophy which lives on today. Ramsey includes very useful notes placing each article in context and background information. History is written by the winners, but many lessons can be learned from the losers. Garrett is a powerful dissident. He shows what lost when the New Deal won, and that explains much of our present economic and social predicament. Although there is discussion of economic issues, it should be easily comprehensible to a non-economist, since Garrett comes from a classical economics (no formulas) background.