A Magnificent Little Libertarian Book
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As president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, people send me books or book recommendations to read and review. It usually doesn’t take me long to see whether these books are consistent with the principled message of liberty that we have advanced here at FFF for 34 years.
For example, an author recently sent me a description of his new book that analyzes the tangled web of tax policies at all levels of government. It appeared to be an excellent analysis but I quickly found his recommended solution — tax reform. I wrote him back, thanked him for reaching out to us, but explained that here at FFF we don’t support tax reform. (We support tax abolition.)
Since most of the books that people send me are along the lines of welfare-warfare state reform, I wasn’t terribly optimistic when I began perusing a little book —122 pages — that an author named Bill Anderson recently sent me. The title of the book is My Libertarian Education. Self-published, it is an intellectual autobiography but in the context of real experiences in the life of the author.
As I began reading this little book, I was totally drawn in. I could not put it down. Reading chapter after chapter was nothing but true enjoyment. This is a magnificent little libertarian book.
Maybe one of the reasons I enjoyed reading it so much is that Anderson’s journey to libertarianism was very similar to my own. Like me, he grew up on farm in the 1960s, during the Vietnam War. As you begin reading his personal experiences and thoughts about the draft, the war, the war protests (including the Kent State killings), and the civil-rights movement you start to get a sense that this is going to be a very interesting book.
And then he writes about Henry David Thoreau and his essay “Civil Disobedience,” which had a profound impact on me wh
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