Liberty Defined Explained
| Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom |
| Border: | yes |
| Author: | Ron Paul |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Libertarianism, Political economy |
| Publisher: | Grand Central Publishing |
| Pub Date: | 2011 |
| Media Type: | Print |
| Pages: | 324 pp. |
| Isbn: | 978-1-4555-0145-8 |
| Oclc: | 668192339 |
| External Url: | https://portalconservador.com/livros/Ron-Paul-Liberty-defined.pdf |
| External Host: | Portal Conservador |
Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom is a 2011 non-fiction book by Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX).[1] [2]
The book came out on April 19, 2011. On release, it was fifth on Amazon's best-selling non-fiction books and nineteenth for all books.[3] For the week ending April 29, 2011, it was fourth on the Wall Street Journal's Best-Seller List.[4] It debuted at #3 on the New York Times non-fiction hardcover best-seller list on April 29 and stayed there the week of May 8.[5] [6]
Topics
Some of the book's philosophical topics include:[7]
- Austrian Economics: A review of the 19th century philosophy underlying much of today's free-market economic outlook.
- Demagogues: The bad guys in the bipartisanship debate, focusing on the "despicable" Pledge of Allegiance and flag-burning issues rampant among Republican demagogues. There's also a chapter on bipartisanship, which Paul doesn't like (a failure of bipartisanship means fewer bad laws).
- Empire: Paul outlines the dangers of military over-extension from the Roman Empire and connects that to the current American Empire. Throughout the book, Paul tosses in statistics about American imperialism and worldwide militarism such as "Government wars and exterminations in the 20th century reached 262 million people killed by their own governments and 44 million people killed in wars." (p. 107)
- Keynesianism: This is the philosophical opposite of Austrian Economics, and is the current underlying philosophy of Bush's & Obama's economic stimulus package,
- Noble Lie: How politicians justify doing whatever they want, by claiming it's good for the country. George W. Bush's advisers fall heavily under this rubric, following Adolf Hitler and others. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is the hero of this chapter, since he exposed the Noble Lies of the U.S. government.
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Notes and References
- News: Ron Paul's "Liberty Defined" Will Make People On Both Sides Of The Political Debate Very Uncomfortable . Gary . Gibson . . April 25, 2011 .
- News: Take a sneak peek at Paul's new book . Patrick . Brendel . . April 18, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110423163547/http://iowaindependent.com/54979/take-a-sneak-peek-at-pauls-new-book . April 23, 2011 .
- News: Ron Paul's new book one of several conservative tomes on Amazon.com's bestsellers list . Patrick . Brendel . The American Independent . April 22, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110511225207/http://www.americanindependent.com/180545/ron-pauls-new-book-one-of-several-conservative-tomes-on-amazon-coms-bestsellers-list . May 11, 2011 .
- News: Publishers Weekly Best-Sellers . . . April 29, 2011 .
- News: Inside the List . Jennifer . Schuessler . . April 29, 2011.
- News: Best Sellers May 08, 2011 . . May 8, 2011.
- Gordon, Jesse. "OnTheIssues.org book review of Liberty Defined" OnTheIssues Retrieved March 9, 2013.
