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THE PEOPLE'S POTTAGE: Foreword; The Revolution Was; Ex America; Rise of Empire; Garrett, Garet Caldwell/ID Caxton Printers 1965 B002K529SY Hardcover
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B002K529SY ~Very Good. VG DJ. Hardcover. Light shelf wear to boards/DJ; satisfaction guaranteed. Everything that has happened to money was done to it by government, beginning with the deceptive separation of people from their own gold, then a confiscation of the gold, then making it a crime for a private citizen to own gold, together with a law forbidding contracts to be made in any kind of money but irredeemable paper currency, and finally the dishonorable repudiation of the promissory words engraved on its bonds. All of this with an air of leave-these-things-to-the-wisdom-of-the-government, as if people could not understand the mysteries of money. That was absurd. The controlling facts about money are not mysterious. By contrast, in 1896, there was a very grave monetary question to be settled. It was silver versus gold; or inflation versus sound money. It was taken to the people, and the people, not the government decided it. The people voted for sound money. Garet Garrett was born in Illinois in 1878. When he was twenty-five he was star writer for the old New York Sun. Thirteen years later he was executive editor of the New York Tribune, having been in the meanwhile financial writer with the New York Times, the Evening Post and Wall Street Journal, and editor of the New York Time Annalist. At thirty-eight he retired from newspaper work to devote himself to free-lance writing. Between 1920 and 1932 he published eight books and a number of widely circulated articles on financial and economic matters. With the advent of the New Deal he vigorously attacked its neo-Marxian premises and its economic fallacies in a series of articles that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. His writing there created much bitter controversy and caused the New Deal to threaten the life of that magazine. In 1940 he became editorial-writer-in-chief of the Saturday Evening Post, after the death of its famous editor, George Horace Lorimer. In 1944 he wrote the notable political monograph entitled The Revolution Was, which went through many editions. This was followed in 1951 by ExAmerica and in 1952 by The Rise of Empire. These three essays, taken serially, give a dramatic account of what has happened in this country during the last twenty years - to the spirit, to the mind, and to the social environment of a people who after a century and a half of being wonderfully free began to ask, "What is freedom?" Mr. Garrett has recently retired to a cave on a river bank at Tuckahoe, New Jersey, where he lives very quietly with his wife, still making notes and comments on the passing show of monstrous human folly. He has just finished a book entitled The Wild Wheel, the theme of which is the death of Henry Ford's world of laissez-faire. Mr. Garrett died in 1954. The above page of biographical notes appeared on the jacket of the first edition of The People's Pottage in 1953.
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Uncommon Sense: The Real American Manifesto; Real-American RAM B00071OK0S MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
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B00071OK0S ~Very Good. No DJ, as issued. Mass-market Paperback. Light shelf wear to covers/corners; satisfaction guaranteed. This is the most revolutionary book ever to appear on the American continent since Tom Paine's Common Sense of 1776, and the most revolutionary book to hit the whole world since Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto of 1848. After reading this book you will understand the true meaning of words like freedom, patriotism, and Americanism. "Uncommon Sense" discusses: American Revolution; Americanism - Socialism; Gold, Money & Inflation; Federal Reserve System. Are you a real American? William James Murray What kind of American are you? Does this question confuse you? It should. Americans are experiencing an identity crisis. They don?t understand who they are. Worse yet, they don?t understand who they are supposed to be. You love our great country, are proud to be an American, and consider yourself patriotic, right? But could you give anyone a good definition of the words ?patriotic? or ?Americanism? if your life depended on it? And believe it or not, it does. And there?s only one accurate definition for each word. Basically you feel patriotic by instinct, coming from your heart, not from your brain, because NOT to feel patriotic about your country is simply unthinkable, isn?t it? You outwardly manifest your patriotism only when you stand up for the Star Spangled Banner at ballgames because everyone else does, or when you attend Fourth of July fireworks, or when you fly the flag occasionally, or when you vote occasionally, or when you join the military service. It?s doubtful whether you can of one more time. Granted, this doesn?t mean that you are a bad American, but it doesn?t mean you are a good American either. Can you recite the only accurate definition, in a political sense, of the word ?freedom,? which requires that you NOT use the word ?free? or ?freedom? in the definition? As a so-called American, you take your freedom for granted because you inherited it. Who ever appreciates what they haven?t earned? Others earned freedom for you, starting at Lexington and Concord, paying for it in lead and blood. Those heroic revolutionaries are tossing in their hallowed graves because you are squandering away what cost them their lives. Ever wonder if you would have stood to fire the shots heard ?round the world? What kind of American are you? There exists an identity crisis in these United States. This book intends to help so- called Americans resolve it by helping them to answer twp personal questions: what kind of American am I now, and what kind of American do I really want to be? You will have only three choices: a Real-American, a Pseudo-American, or a Socialist- American. That?s all. There are no other choices. Never will be, ever. Real-Americans are philosophical descendants of revolutionaries like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Molly Pitcher, and Tom Paine, who all loved freedom enough to fight for it.. Pseudo-Americans are philosophical descendants of the cowardly colonial neutrals, who refused to take a stand for either side during our entire revolution. Socialist-Americans are philosophical descendants of English King George, the colonial Tories or Loyalists, and traitor Benedict Arnold, who all loved governmental power and who wished to use it to control other people?s lives. Outside of the RA?s, PA?s, and SA?s mentioned above, every other description of our people hides their true identity. Words to identify so-called Americans such as liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat, leftwinger, rightwinger, union, non-union, and others, are totally useless and should be ignored. Drop them from your vocabulary. What kind of American are you? What is your true identity? You can?t hide any more. It?s time to take sides. The Second American Revolution is starting. You will be part of the problem or part of the solution.
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9.00 USD
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