The book that inspired Ron Paul

[RSLudlum]

http://www.reclaimingtheright.com/

http://www.reclaimingtheright.com/images/book.jpg



"When I was deciding whether or not to run for President as a Republican, I re-read Justin Raimondo's Reclaiming the American Right and it gave me hope—that the anti-interventionist, pro-liberty Old Right, which had once dominated the party, could and would rise again. Here is living history: the story of an intellectual and political tradition that my campaign invoked and reawakened. This prescient book, written in 1993, could not be more relevant today."

— RON PAUL, Ten Term U.S. Congressman (TX) and 2008 Presidential Candidate

[Grimnir Wotansvolk]

I'm on a tight budget right now and would like to read either this or Rothbard's The Betrayal of the American Right. Which one is better, overall?

[Conza88]

Free books (benefits from the free market system; not socialised) in sig below.

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

http://www.reclaimingtheright.com/

http://www.reclaimingtheright.com/images/book.jpg



"When I was deciding whether or not to run for President as a Republican, I re-read Justin Raimondo's Reclaiming the American Right and it gave me hope—that the anti-interventionist, pro-liberty Old Right, which had once dominated the party, could and would rise again. Here is living history: the story of an intellectual and political tradition that my campaign invoked and reawakened. This prescient book, written in 1993, could not be more relevant today."

— RON PAUL, Ten Term U.S. Congressman (TX) and 2008 Presidential Candidate

What is amazing about this book is how its title alone contains the premises and the conclusions necessary for one to know not to read it. So, in a sense, I read the whole book by just judging its cover.

Premise: The political spectrum is concrete and static.
Premise: The Conservative Movement is a lost legacy.
Conclusion: The people have wrongly chosen to move to the left.

Premise: Movements are change.
Premise: Conservativism is a movement.
Conclusion: No American movement exists today because people have wrongly chosen to move to the left.

Premise: The American citizen is unique in that he or she is established as "being" citizens by self evident and inalienable truths founded on the science of natural law.
Premise: The act of "Reclaiming" requires that people be manipulated to "become" citizens once again.
Conclusion: ?

As an American citizen sitting at the national dinner table, it is easy to perceive the books that I don't need to read. Such books don't take into account that the United States is perhaps the only legitimate nation in the world because it is based on both a formal divorce decree, the Declaration of Independence, and a formal marriage decree, the U.S. Constitution.
While the business of legal precedence has set about to smother the formal significance of our government, the marriage to the new government in the Constitution itself can't be properly interpreted without it first being justaposed to the model of the old tyrant described in the divorce decree of the Declaration of Independence.