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6 reviews
Henry Grady Weaver, Rose Wilder Lane

Foundation for Economic Education, 1997

Classic defence of freedom
This book, first published in 1947, is both a condensation and an amplification of Rose Wilder Lane's classic The Discovery Of Freedom. With Lane's consent, Weaver retold her story in his own way, making use of her ideas but adding material from his personal experience and from various other sources. Part One: Comparisons and Contrasts, explores various puzzling questions of history and the ...

Rebellion, Revolution, and Religiousness

4 reviews
Osho

New Falcon Publications, 1990

Changing the outside from within
"It is easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission." "Delay is the strongest form of denial." There is so much that we don't know about ourselves. The powers that be, political, economic or religious, would like to keep it that way. They don't want us to know that we can be totally responsible for ourselves, thereby making ourselves totally free of them. After all, there are ...

The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State and Other Essays by Auberon Herbert

3 reviews
Auberon Herbert

Liberty Fund / Liberty Classics / Liberty Press, 1978

Beautiful Work
This volume is an essential collection of the profound works of Auberon Herbert, the fountainhead of "voluntaryism." Herbert took Herbert Spencer's famous law of equal freedom, and extended it to its full extent. As a result, Herbert concluded, as Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, et al, have since, that physical force is evil, and that the only legitimate, or at least, acceptable use of force is ...

Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority

10 reviews
Rose Wilder Lane

Fox & Wilkes, 1993

A High School and College MUST READ
No wonder the publishers in 1943 did not push this book! It is filled with truth about Freedom and very educational. Not at all what anyone who likes to control people would want you to know about. What is Freedom, what are people operating with instead. What a great book. I am sorry no one ever had me read this book years ago. Such an uplifting style of writing. In this day and age, our Liberty ...

Makers and Takers: How Wealth and Progress Are Made and How They Are Taken Away or Prevented

5 reviews
Edmund Contoski

American Liberty Publishers, 1997

How Wealth and Progress are made,
As a nation we have just closed a trying chapter on American Government in action. A determined Special Prosecutor, with an unlimited budget, turned loose with no one holding the reigns, almost brought the Presidency crumbling to the ground. Many people railed against the depth of intrusion that was imposed on the first family. But if you stop to think about it, perhaps government was only ...

Pushing the Envelope

19 reviews

Random House Audio, 1998

Mackays best book to date
I have been a fan of Harvey Mackay since reading Swim with the Sharks. Pushing the Envelope is even better.If you are in business or want to be, read this book and learn from a master..

Egoshell: Planetary Individualism Balanced Within Planetary Interdependence

2 reviews
Robert A. Thompson, Louise S. Thompson

Prometheus Books, 1987

A space-age social breakthrough for the new Millenium!
This "Discussion" was published in Canada for global distribution (by subscription only) in HUMANKIND ADVANCING (Vol.6, No.1, January 1995). A SPATIAL VANTAGE POINT -- Discussion of EGOSHELL (a local-to-global leadership textbook) written by R.A.Thompson and L.S.Thompson Instant advanced knowledge could be provided in spite of widespread illiteracy, the Thompsons believe. They describe ...

Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds: Individualism and the Science of the Mind (Cambridge Studies in ...

2 reviews
Robert Andrew Wilson

Cambridge University Press, 1995

This book provides a lucid and incisive summary of issues
The issue of individualism in the philosophy of psychology is related to the larger question of the place of individualism as a viable construct in any scientific account of beliefs, desires and other curiosities of folk psychology. While Wilson's focus on this book is part of an attempt to come to grips with the status of folk psychology and a scientific account of mind as a whole, the book ...

Time For Truth

6 reviews
William Simon

Berkley, 1979

Remembering Mr. Simon....he was a formidable intellect....
With the passing of Mr. Simon I was reminded of his book, A TIME FOR TRUTH. I read this great book 20 years ago while picking up what was remaining of my horrific beginning foray in college and working full-time in the vaults of Morgan Guaranty (J.P. Morgan). I credit Mr. Simon's book with helping to turn my life around and giving me the paternal leadership I was lacking. It's a marvelous book ...

The Pursuit of Attention: Power and Ego in Everyday Life

3 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

Not just a book, a treasure.
I usually sell or give away books once I've read them - there are always other books to read, and I don't fool myself that I'm going to revisit most of what I've already read. There are exceptions, but very few. "The Pursuit of Attention" is not just an exception to this habit, it is for me, the premier exception. I first received this book as an unsolicited bonus from the bomc. I can ...

The Ordeal of Robert Frost: The Poet and His Poetics

2 reviews
Mark Richardson

University of Illinois Press, 1997

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Exceptionally good book, and a must-read for anyone interested in Frost, or occupied with the study of his work. Thoughtful and rewarding. Highly recommended.

The informed heart: Autonomy in a mass age

2 reviews
Bruno Bettelheim

Avon, 1973

Although written over forty years ago, it holds its own.
"The Informed Heart" warns us that with new technology we may be losing our autonomy. The most telling part of this book for me was when a frustrated customer, after trying to cancel his subscription, finally punches holes all over his subscribtion card. Then the magazine doesn't come. Bettelheim's work is among the first to tell us the psychological impact on the concentration camp on inmates ...

Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850-1940 (Cultural Studies of the United States)

2 reviews
James Livingston

The University of North Carolina Press, 1997

An unusually deep and innovative work
This is a work of conceptual brilliance, in its argument about why pragmatism occurred when it did, its cultural ramifications and its current importance. In addition Livingston illuminatingly connects pragmatism with post-modernism.

Solitude of Self

2 reviews
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Paris Press, 2000

Words to live by
This book is a must read for every woman -- and man. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's words are as relevant today as they were when she wrote this speech. Not only is "Solitude of Self" a powerful political treatise, but also a spiritual argument for why everyone in society deserves an equal education. The Paris Press edition is beautiful. It makes the perfect gift for any woman or girl, and should be ...

The Era of the Individual

2 reviews
Alain Renaut

Princeton University Press, 1997

Thoughtful, insightful, and impressively learned.
I first came across Alain Renaut's work through his collaborations with Luc Ferry. Their book "French Philosophy of the Sixties", published in 1985, initiated a sort of 'revolution' in French philosophy. In contrast to the structuralism of Foucault, Lacan, Derrida and others - who in large measure took Heidegger as their starting point - Ferry and Renaut upheld the value and importance of ...

MAN VERSUS THE STATE

2 reviews
HERBERT SPENCER

Liberty Fund Inc., 1982

Lucid, Penetrating, and Dripping with Wisdom
This book, deservedly, is a classic. Although relatively short, it is chock-full of insights -- many of which anticipate the important work decades later by F.A. Hayek. Spencer's passion for freedom, and his understanding of the nature of politicized and depoliticized societies, was deep. This is an inspiring work.

Reason and Horror

2 reviews

Taylor & Francis, 2007

An Expanded Understanding of the Value and Nature of Democracy
In this book, author Morton Schoolman addresses the familiar idea of democracy from a new and liberating angle. He offers an account that takes this highly valued form of politics beyond formal governmental structures or processes of political participation to the development of the idea of a "culture of democracy," which is distinguished by the presence of a form of aesthetic reason that ...

Every Man and Woman an Island: The Individual Human Being as Prime in the Universe

2 reviews

Trafford Publishing, 2004

Very Enlightening Read
I'm willing to bet that this book is bound to change anyone's mind, assuming that you actually read it, and not just shut your mind off, because he says something you don't like, or were told the opposite. He provides much evidence to back up his claims. It opened my eyes about much of the states' (he even tackles religion some) cruelties, and absurdities, and gives the reader a unique way of ...

Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency, and India

2 reviews
Purnima Bose

Duke University Press, 2003

Postcolonialism, yes, but with a materialist edge to it...
In her first book, "Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency, and India," Purnima Bose musters strong archival skills, rhetorical elegance and theoretical sophistication to reveal (powerfully) the ways that colonial and anti-colonial forms of political discourse and historiography created domesticated models of "rogue individualism" and "heroic individualism" to explain away, disavow ...

The Masterless: Self & Society in Modern America

2 reviews
Wilfred M. McClay

University of North Carolina Press, 1994

A brilliant and nuanced discussion of the American character
This is a simply splendid historical analysis of the ambivalences inherent in the American character. McClay frames the issues within a process he calls "consolidation," which is the bureacratization and rationalization of American economic and political life. McClay concludes (as did Tocqueville) that the seemingly oppositional tendencies of hyper-individualism and bland conformism are in fact ...

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