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Jim Powell's Triumph of Liberty

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Andrew Cain Posted: Mon, Aug 24 2009 8:21 AM

So I just got the audiobook Triumph of Liberty  by Jim Powell and so far it is a really wonderful book. I've listened to the chapters on Cicero, John Lilburne, and John Locke. Very fascinating history lessons on the characters [ there are 65 in all though I don't know all of them yet, though I heard Friedman and Thatcher are in it ] So far it has a minarchist twist to it cause it seems like the author only picked individuals who advocate small government rather then no government but truly there are individuals in here who commited heroic acts in the name of liberty against government tyranny [ like John Lilburne who actually got his eye poked out by the British government ]. So far I recommend it [ the guy who read Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty and For A New Liberty is the reader and he is very good, better then the lady who is doing Conceived in Liberty, her voice puts me to sleep ]

By the way Jim Powell also wrote FDR's Folly  which is about the New Deal and the FDR presidency. I have that book also and it is very good so I would recommend that too.

'Men do not change, they unmask themselves' - Germaine de Stael

 

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