Ever read People's Pottage?

[gunderwood]

Anyone ever read this book?
http://mises.org/store/Ex-America-The-5 ... -P426.aspx

It is a very good read, if you read critically. This is not a book to read casually. More than likely you won't agree with all of it, but it will challenge you. While the details are of course rooted in FDR/New Deal, the ideas and principles are applicable today. Hence, why I am throwing out the suggestion to read it (see bold below).

If you have never heard of this author, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garet_Garrett (emphasis mine):

"Garet Garrett was born in 1878 in Illinois. By 1903, he had become a well known writer for the old New York Sun...In 1916, at the age of 38, Garrett became the executive editor of the New York Tribune, after having worked as a financial writer for The New York Times, the Saturday Evening Post, and The Wall Street Journal...

Garett's political viewpoint overall, and the central theme throughout all his books, is libertarian or classical liberal. All his works exemplify the basic premise that a man is responsible for his own life, and that no man can expect a free ride off others, through forced income distribution schemes such as socialism and communism. As the 20th century progressed, he believed that Americans were signing away their birthright of freedom, through trading in their responsibilities of self-governance and self-responsibility, in return for more socialist measures such as FDR's New Deal expansion of government."

More details: http://mises.org/story/2751

[GS78]

Anyone ever read this book?
http://mises.org/store/Ex-America-The-5 ... -P426.aspx


Garett's political viewpoint overall, and the central theme throughout all his books, is libertarian or classical liberal. All his works exemplify the basic premise that a man is responsible for his own life, and that no man can expect a free ride off others, through forced income distribution schemes such as socialism and communism. As the 20th century progressed, he believed that Americans were signing away their birthright of freedom, through trading in their responsibilities of self-governance and self-responsibility, in return for more socialist measures such as FDR's New Deal expansion of government."

More details: http://mises.org/story/2751

...and in that sense, he would be correct.