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Freedom in One Lesson: The Best of Leonard Read
Edited with commentary by Gary Galles
Freedom in One Lesson is an extensive collection of Leonard Read’s best, most powerful sustained arguments on behalf of liberty.
Over ninety-seven short chapters, Gary Galles elucidates the essence of Leonard Read’s lifelong work of educating the world in plain English about the virtues of freedom, something that was urgently needed in the dark days of the postwar era and is even more desperately needed today.
Leonard Read had a golden literary touch that produced hundreds of articles and numerous books championing the cause of a free society over government tyranny and control. A few topics that the typical college student is unfamiliar with, and which Read explains so eloquently yet clearly in this volume, are the morality of free markets; the immorality of government coercion; the difference between real justice and phony “social justice”; the deceptive language of government tyranny; why more-complex societies require less government control than less developed ones; why the poor need free markets more than anyone else; how millions of people all across the world routinely collaborate voluntarily to produce just about everything, from pizza and pencils to the most sophisticated technological gadgets and machines; and why socialism harms everyone.
The Struggle for Liberty: A Libertarian History of Political Thought
Edited with annotations by Ryan McMaken
Until now, Ralph Raico’s 10-hour lecture series on the history of classical-liberal political thought was only available in audio. Ryan McMaken has transcribed and annotated this treasure, making it available to a new generation of readers thirsty for the history, not of state power, but of the vibrant struggle for liberty throughout the centuries.
In these lectures Raico weaves together the daily life of the past, the history of competing intellectual traditions, the history of the modern state, and the international background to create a broad and compelling narrative. He pulls no intellectual punches, but in these enlightening talks, he presents a complex story in such a way that the disputes of hundreds of years ago reach us as living, breathing, continuing history.
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