|
| The Revolution: A Manifesto | 
 enlarge | Author: Ron Paul
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $21.00
Buy New: $11.90
You Save: $9.10 (43%)
New (48) Used (15) Collectible (6) from $10.75
Avg. Customer Rating:  710 reviews
Sales Rank: 106
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0446537519
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931
EAN: 9780446537513
ASIN: 0446537519
Publication Date: April 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Customer Reviews:
The future military leadership of America thank God for Ron Paul April 30, 2008
31 out of 34 found this review helpful
Thank God for Ron Paul. I am a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy and, in two years time, I will be 23 years old and a 2nd lieutenant in the Marine Corps charged with the lives of roughly 40 Marines. I will willingly put myself in harms way to protect the oath I made to this country's constitution. Sadly, the powers that be in this country are all too willing to sacrifice the lives of people like myself and the men we'll be leading for costly wars of agression. Despite the common misconception, a majority of military members are not trigger-happy jingoists looking to rape and pillage other countries for personal gain. Those individuals happen to be the politicians in control of us. We are fighting for our families and our freedoms and our liberties granted to us by God and reaffirmed by our Constitution. We are not allowed to speak out politically for obvious reasons, and I speak for myself when I say this, but Libertarians are a strong force at my school and we will soon go on to fill important roles in both the military and government. The Second American Revolution has started and I have a group of hard-chargers just waiting to run for congress and take back our country the way Ron Paul has instructed: peacefully. This book is a powerfull primer. Everyone must read, especially those of us that are younger and will be in a position to effect the changes Dr. Paul encourages us to persue.
Support the Constitution. Support the Right to Bear Arms. Support an end to the Federal Reserve and to the oppressive 16th ammendment. Support an end to the prohibition on drugs. Support an end to the prohibition on ANYTHING. Support an end to government waste. Support an end to needless wars of agression. Support an end to one-party "Republicrat" rule. Support the Free State Project. Support the message of freedom and prosperity. Most of all, support Ron Paul and the new manifesto for the Second American Revolution. What a great time to be alive!
Spread the word
Ron Paul's Legacy April 18, 2008
29 out of 32 found this review helpful
This well-written and convincingly argued book sums up what Dr. Paul has been talking about for over a year on the campaign trail. Veteran Ron Paul Republicans will be familiar with most everything within, but the issues, arguments, and replies to critics have been weaved together especially well, and as a result the book is a joy to read. The book is just the right length and can easily be finished in 2-3 sittings. Clearly crafted to be timeless, the focus is on principle and philosophy; the references to specific legislation and technical policy is limited.
An especially helpful part of the book is the section on economic freedom. I attended a speech and question-and-answer session Dr. Paul gave at Goucher College and the left-leaning student body was clearly not convinced about his economic views. If he had had the time to elucidate all of the thoughtful and persuasive points he makes in this section I honestly think he would have inspired dozens of those leftist students to reconsider their views on economics.
This book is worth buying, reading, and passing out to interested friends and family.
Manifesto of Libertarian Resurgance April 29, 2008
28 out of 32 found this review helpful
I believe that the 2008 election will be particularly memorable because of Paul. I further believe that this candidacy may well serve as a catalyst for Libertarian resurgence. For that reason alone the book is worth acquiring. Its publication is as prescient in these vaguely fascist times in the same way that Goldwater's "Conscience of a Conservative was during earlier vaguely social-democratic times.
Thankfully this is not simply a campaign tract. This is a well-written and concise book that applies the tenets of modern, unapologetic libertarianism to the issues of the day. Paul addresses the standard issues: foreign policy (non-interventionist), human rights (adamantly for), abortion (adamantly against - but willing to let the states decide), the death penalty (he'd abolish federal capital punishment), Social Security (against), and the welfare state (stifles initiative and voluntary charity); which are the usual fodder in a campaign.
However, Paul addresses each if these issues with a passion that is remarkable in an election-year. He is not merely against the War in Iraq: he is appalled at its illegality and the cowardice of a legislature that acquiesced in a non-declared ware against a non-belligerent. He makes no bones about it - remarkable for a man who is very likely to take his seat within that self-same legislature within a few months. It is not a matter of doing things differently in order to achieve the same outcome, perhaps more humanely or rationally. Paul detests the outcome itself and is forthright in saying so. Likewise with the War on Drugs; Likewise with taxation. There is passion here that approaches the prophetic.
He also addresses Money, which, oddly, rarely figures into the political dialogue, (at least not since Williams Jennings Bryan) yet arguably is the one issue that impacts us all. Whether or not one agrees with his Hard Money stance or his antagonism to the Federal Reserve, he has at least forced a discussion that is long overdue. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin warned that "The surest way to destroy a nation is to debauch its currency". Ron Paul would surely stand in solidarity with Lenin on at least that score. As commodity prices rise across the board and the dollar becomes an international joke - why is Ron Paul the only one speaking about money policy?
Ron Paul has been dismissed as something of a crank - kind of a Ralph Nader of the Right. Like Ralph Nader, Paul is no more interested in pandering to mainstream Republicans than Nader is to Democrats. The difference is that Nader has always been a gadfly. Except for about 20 minutes in 1972, the Democratic Party has never been particularly welcoming of radicals from the Left. (Palmer Raids, HUAC, blacklisting...all Democratic initiatives.)
Paul's book, on the other hand is well within an established tradition of extreme individualism: radicalism on the Right.
He relates that, ironically enough for a party descended from Whigs, the GOP has been an historic home for Jeffersonians and the descendents of the Anti-Federalists for most of the last century. In that sense, unlike Nader and the Democrats, Paul stands squarely within the legacy of the old GOP.
This is demonstrated not only by Paul's book. Readers would to well to supplement Revolution: A Manifesto with Brian Doherty's
Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement,an informative, (and surprisingly entertaining) history of Libertarianism, as well as Justin Raimondo's Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement, which tracks the non-interventionist , anti-war spirit of older American Conservatism.
These volumes, along with Paul's book portray a conservative legacy that is far older than the current George W. Bush/John McCain brand of National Greatness. So old in fact that the People's Weekly World, that redoubtable publication of Communist Party USA joked: "There is absolutely no argument that Dr. Paul would make the best president of the United States that the 16th century could offer."
One might reply that when we see not only the Constitution, but the Magna Carta under assault by a praetorian guard of theofascists, perhaps a progressive circa 1500 would not be so bad.
Thankfully the CPUSA is about 200 years off insofar as Paul is concerned. Dr. Paul is almost singularly responsible for bringing our uniquely American brand of Revolution...circa 1776...to the attention of a 2008 electorate. In the current climate, this is revolutionary.
Hence, regardless of one's political temperment, Revolution: A Manifesto deserves a reading.
Agree or Disagree it's still Great for Discussion April 22, 2008
27 out of 30 found this review helpful
This book raises some very serious questions that our political leaders and media talking-heads are either too ignorant or too partisan to ask.
Whether you are a fan of Ron Paul's or if you disagree with him, this book is worth your time. This book will help you sharpen your arguments for or against him, and expand your knowledge of politics in America.
Let's Get Americans to Think Like Americans Again April 29, 2008
27 out of 30 found this review helpful
I've bopped around libertarian and conservative circles since 1994, and to be honest, my enthusiasm for the whole ball of wax has been pretty much tapped out for the past few years. Even last year, when I first heard legendary libertarian congressman Ron Paul was running for president as a Republican, I wasn't much interested. He'll just be marginalized and ignored, if he's not outright ridiculed, I thought.
Then a wonderful thing happened. Oh, Ron Paul has been alternately marginalized, ignored, and ridiculed by the usual suspects in government and the media. But thanks to the magic of the Internet, his message has nevertheless spread far and wide among a new generation of what Albert Jay Nock called the Remnant. He's set fundraising records and ignited a bona fide political movement for liberty. I guess I'm not the only one nauseated by the grim prospect of fascist warmonger John McCain facing off against socialist warmonger Hillary Clinton for the prize of becoming Emperor of the Dolts.
And here we have Ron Paul's campaign book. Campaign books by their nature have a very short shelf life and perform no useful task (for the reader); they're written only to make the candidate sound like a normal, warm human being with ordinary goals and values instead of a creepy, reptilian politician who gets sexually aroused only by the prospect of power and money.
Needless to say, The Revolution: A Manifesto is different. Anyone who has met Ron Paul -- or even just watched him on TV -- has already figured out that he is a normal, warm human being. He has nothing to prove in that arena. Instead, he has laid out, in simple and easy-to-understand terms, the case for freedom. Not freedom in that corrupted sense that pretends this or that government program will "help" us be happy -- but real, honest-to-God, traditional American freedom FROM government, just as our Founders intended.
Away with the tax collectors. Away with the bureaucrats. Away with the regulators. Away with the babysitters and busybodies. Away with every manner of petty tax-eating loser who would presume to tell us what to do with our lives and how to do it. Ron Paul represents what I hope is not the last of a long line of Americans who know what real freedom is and embrace it. To that end, this book should help ensure others will take up the cause -- before we are all really, really sorry.
In just 167 pages, Dr. Paul lucidly expounds matters of foreign policy, economics, civil liberties, monetary policy, the Constitution, and more. He provides plenty of quotations and other support to ground what he is saying firmly in authentic American tradition. He shows how appealing and even simple the message of freedom is, even in an age like ours, where it has again become "radical" to insist on strict boundaries for government, an entity that should properly be thought of as nightsticks and jackboots, not Christmas presents and candy.
For confirmed advocates of liberty, The Revolution will not offer much they don't already know. What the book does offer is a great introduction for the average American who has become accustomed to thinking that getting permission from the government is the same thing as freedom. The Revolution has the potential to re-orient Joe Sixpack's point of view back toward American ideals and away from the statist brainwashing he received in government school. To that end, you should get as many of your friends, neighbors, and family members as possible to read this book. It really can make a difference.
Let the revolution continue!
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
