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An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths Paperback – February 4, 2007

by Glenn Reynolds (Author)
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There was a time in the not-too-distant past when large companies and powerful governments reigned supreme over the little guy. But new technologies are empowering individuals like never before, and the Davids of the world-the amateur journalists, musicians, and small businessmen and women-are suddenly making a huge economic and social impact.

In Army of Davids, author Glenn Reynolds, the man behind the immensely popular Instapundit.com, provides an in-depth, big-picture point-of-view for a world where the small guys matter more and more. Reynolds explores the birth and growth of the individual's surprisingly strong influence in: arts and entertainment, anti-terrorism, nanotech and space research, and much more.

The balance of power between the individual and the organization is finally evening out. And it's high time the Goliaths of the world pay attention, because, as this book proves, an army of Davids is on the rise.

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"George Orwell feared that technology would enable dictators to enslave the masses. Glenn Reynolds shows that technology can empower individuals to determine their own futures and to defeat those who would enslave us. This is a book of profound importance-and also a darn good read." -MICHAEL BARONE, senior writer at U.S. News & World Report and author of Hard America, Soft America

"Blogger extraordinaire Glenn Reynolds shows how average Americans can use new technologies to overcome the twin demons of corporate greed and incompetent government. Reynolds is a compelling evangelist for the power of the individual to change our world." -ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, author of Pigs at the Trough and Fanatics and Fools

"A smart, fun tour of a major social and economic trend. From home-brewed beer to blogging, Glenn Reynolds is an engaging, uniquely qualified guide to the do-it-yourself movements transforming business, politics, and media." -VIRGINIA POSTREL, Forbes columnist and author of The Future and its Enemies and The Substance of Style

"A student in her dorm room now commands the resources of a multi-million dollar music recording or movie editing studio of not so many years ago. The tools of creativity have been democratized and the tools of production are not far behind (Karl Marx take note). Glenn Reynolds's beguiling new book tells the insightful story of how an 'army of Davids' is inheriting the Earth, leaving a trail of obsolete business models not to mention cultural, economic, and political institutions in its wake." -RAY KURZWEIL, scientist, inventor, and author of several books including The Singularity is Near

'Must-read,' 'gotta have,' 'culture-changing' . . . I am suspicious of blurbs with such overused plugs. But Glenn Reynolds's An Army of Davids is in fact a must-read new book that you gotta have if you are going to understand the culture-changing forces that are unleashed and at work across the globe. -HUGH HEWITT, syndicated talk radio host and author of Blog and Painting the Map Red

"Glenn Reynolds has written an essential book for understanding how technology and markets are creating a bottom-up shift in power to ordinary people that is changing business, government, and our world. Packed with fresh ideas and adorned with graceful prose, An Army of Davids is a masterpiece." -JOE TRIPPI, author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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  1. Print length
    289 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    Thomas Nelson
  4. Publication date
    February 4, 2007
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1595551131
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1595551139
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Customers find the book insightful and entertaining. They say it expands their thinking into areas they haven't considered. The book is about the empowerment of the individual, which is pro-liberty. Readers describe it as a very readable book that can be finished on a single day.

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  • David McCune
    5.0 out of 5 stars Read the book the trendsetters are reading
    Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2006
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    Glenn Reynolds has written a book that will be the starting point for many a future conversation. I recommend it highly to anyone interested in informed commentary about the rapid changes our culture is undergoing.

    Is the book encyclopedic? No, in fact the conversational style and overview of topics create a very readable book that can be finished on a plane ride. Bear in mind that this is an overview of the subject. If you are looking for detailed analyses of trends, this may not be your book. Readers of Prof. Reynolds' Instapundit blog will be familiar with many of the topics, as the book essentialy is a distillation of what he has been writing there for some time. Still, even for those who have read some of this before, it is good to see it set out as a single, coherent argument.

    In summary, An Army of Davids works very well as an introduction to cultural trends which, whether you like them or not, will be shaping your future. The title itself has already worked its way into the American lexicon. The folks who will be shaping your future will be reading Reynolds' book. I recommend you join them.
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  • Arthur M. Diamond, Jr.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Jonathan Foss's Review of Glenn Reynold's "An Army of Davids"
    Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2014
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    Jonathan Foss's review was made as part of a critical review assignment for the Spring 2014 Economics of Technology seminar at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, taught by Art Diamond. (The course syllabus stated that part of the critical review assignment consisted of the making of a video recording of the review, and the posting of the review to Amazon.)
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  • Peanut & Jilly
    5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and Insightful
    Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2007
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    This is an entertaining and insightful read. While it doesn't claim to be a business book, it certainly has great applicability to businesses great and small. If you are looking for political commentary, this book really doesn't fit the category as some commentators have suggested. Still, this is a book about the empowerment of the individual, something that is inherently pro-liberty. The thought of the rise of individualism clearly is scary to some.

    As a lawyer, Reynolds is a trained "issue spotter." He does not purport to know all of the answers, but the recognition of an issue is the first step to understanding it and capitalizing on it. An Army of Davids does a great job of raising a lot of issues that society, businesses and the "establishment" must grapple with over the next twenty years.
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  • Richard M. Rollo
    5.0 out of 5 stars A better world for the creative ahead, Reynolds knows why
    Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2006
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    After reading An Army of Davids, I thought back eight years earlier when I still subscribed to the Los Angeles Times and one of their Princelings of Political Correctness announced that hereafter the LA Times would apply affirmative action guidelines to the sources of articles. The article was such an unintended parody of political correctness that I rechecked to make sure that Rush Limbaugh had not written it. How can these people get away with it?

    Well, according to Glenn Reynolds, not anymore. Not when the internet and inexpensive blog hosting services put news reporting in the hands of ordinary people; people with time and talent but not capital can go into the pundit business themselves. Technology has neutralized many of the advantages of capital. Army of Davids explains not how this happened but why it happened and why it will move out in the future to the other arts and to other commercial products. He is an optimist who believes that people will have much greater control of their lives in the future. Control of all aspects of their lives.

    I bought this book because I'm a great admirer of his Instapundit weblog, which reflects the interests of a well and widely read man. He is a later day Benjamin Franklin or Jefferson in the scope of his curiosity. Well Worth it
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  • Nick W.
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Army of Davids
    Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2010
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    The world is changing, thankfully, and no one says it better than Glenn Reynolds! For me it is like nirvana discovering how big corporations no longer hold the balance of power. Through social networks people like you and me can bring down any power structure that doesn't act in our best interest. Glenn Reynolds has such a great way of describing this. The book should be a manifesto for anyone who doesn't like lying, manipulating, low-life, scum-bag politicians. Pardon the oxymoron!

    It is the embodiment of our new Tea Party! It is no longer the Big no longer eat the small.. it is the fast that eat the slow.
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  • ensignp
    4.0 out of 5 stars the times they are achanging
    Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2013
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    With all the bad news around about NSA spying and drones this book tells the story of the good technology is doing for the everyday soul.
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