Product Description

This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To.

• The government is expanding.
  
• Taxes are increasing.
  
• More senseless wars are being planned.
  
• Inflation is ballooning.
  
• Our basic freedoms are disappearing.

The Founding Fathers didn't want any of this. In fact, they said so quite clearly in the Constitution of the United States of America. Unfortunately, that beautiful, ingenious, and revolutionary document is being ignored more and more in Washington. If we are to enjoy peace, freedom, and prosperity once again, we absolutely must return to the principles upon which America was founded. But finally, there is hope . . .

In THE REVOLUTION,Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul has exposed the core truths behind everything threatening America, from the real reasons behind the collapse of the dollar and the looming financial crisis, to terrorism and the loss of our precious civil liberties. In this book, Ron Paul provides answers to questions that few even dare to ask.

Despite a media blackout, this septuagenarian physician-turned-congressman sparked a movement that has attracted a legion of young, dedicated, enthusiastic supporters . . . a phenomenon that has amazed veteran political observers and made more than one political rival envious. Candidates across America are already running as "Ron Paul Republicans."

"Dr. Paul cured my apathy," says a popular campaign sign. THE REVOLUTION may cure yours as well.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Congressman, Republican Presidential candidate and author Paul (A Foreign Policy of Freedom) says "Let the revolution begin" with this libertarian plea for a return to "the principles of our Founding Fathers: liberty, self-government, the Constitution, and a noninterventionist foreign policy." Specific examples demonstrate how far U.S. law has strayed from this path, particularly over the past century, as well as Paul's firm grasp of history and dedication to meaningful debate: "it is revolutionary to ask whether we need troops in 130 countries... whether the accumulation of more and more power in Washington has been good for us...to ask fundamental questions about privacy, police-state measures, taxation, social policy." Though he can rant, Paul is informative and impassioned, giving readers of any political bent food for thought. With harsh words for both Democrats and Republicans, and especially George W. Bush, Paul's no-nonsense text questions the "imperialist" foreign policy that's led to the war in Iraq ("one of the most ill considered, poorly planned, and... unnecessary military conflicts in American history"), the economic situation and rampant federalism treading on states' rights and identities ("The Founding Fathers did not intend for every American neighborhood to be exactly the same"). Though his policy suggestions can seem extreme, Paul's book gives new life to old debates.
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Review
"The real truth about Liberty. This book takes a wrecking ball to the political establishment. Senator Goldwater would have loved it -- it's The Conscience of a Conservative for the 21^st century." (Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., former member of Congress )

About the Author
Ron Paul, a ten-term congressman from Texas, is the leading advocate of freedom in our nation's capital. He has devoted his political career to the defense of individual liberty, sound money, and a non-interventionist foreign policy. Judge Andrew Napolitano calls him "the Thomas Jefferson of our day."

After serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force in the 1960s, Dr. Paul moved to Texas to begin a civilian medical practice, delivering over four thousand babies in his career as an obstetrician. He served in Congress from 1976 to 1984, and again from 1996 to the present. He and Carol Paul, his wife of fifty-one years, have five children, eighteen grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Ron Paul, the New York Post once wrote, is a politician who "cannot be bought by special interests."

"There are few people in public life who, through thick and thin, rain or shine, stick to their principles," added a congressional colleague. "Ron Paul is one of those few."

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Customer Reviews

Should be required reading in every high school civics class.
Most Americans are good citizens who work hard and pay their taxes. Therefore, many of them falsely believe that THEY don't have anything to "worry about" when the government ignores or circumvents its' Constitutional limitations. They are especially prone to accept the government's constitutional abuses when the government proclaims that its' actions will make its' citizens safer or more prosperous. This book will open their eyes and enable them to see how unrestrained big government has ALREADY negatively impacted their lives in many ways and how it will continue to do so if we, as citizens, continue to tolerate its' encroachments on our freedoms. This book shows how the constitutional abuses we were told would make us safer and more prosperous have actually had the opposite effect.

My President: Ron Paul
This is an excellent book, I've read it several times. Just wanted to add my rating.

Read it - and weep
Paul writes clearly and seems to believe what he says, a rather refreshing departure for a politician. I am in any event naturally biased in his favor, as I agree with a great deal of his program, including no intervention in other nations, no sanctions on Iran or Cuba, no foreign aid, no sugar quotas, no draft or compulsory "national service," no executive orders except for administrative matters, no signing statements, no federal drug war, no NEA or Dept of Education, no Patriot Act or limitations on habeas corpus, no FISA violations.

My one problem, but it is major, is Paul's failure to even address, in the context of abolishing most federal programs and regulations, such issues as child labor, minimum wage, OSHA, FDA, food labeling, anti-trust, &c. None of these issues is mentioned in the Constitution, so under Paul's philosophy, none should be addressed by federal law. But are we really upset that a 14-year-old child may not work for more than a specified number of hours, or a 10-year-old child work in a factory, or a 6-year-old child work at all? Yes, the states can provide for child labor laws and all the rest, but states, especially small ones, can more easily be corrupted than can the federal government, so a state with, say, one significant industry might be persuaded - that is, bribed and intimidated - into allowing child labor and abolishing workplace safety regulations. As for, e.g., food labeling, who but the federal government could order and administer it? I suspect Paul would allow the federal government to deal with some of these problems, but his book is so anti-regulation that he should have at least discussed the subject and specified which regulations are appropriate and even necessary.

As for abandoning the incorporation doctrine (where the Supreme Court applied the Bill of Rights to the states) and returning civil rights issues to the states, which Paul strongly supports, I don't think most Americans really want to allow Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire or South Carolina to create a state church (all of these states had established churches at the time the Constitution was adopted - the only thing that prevents them having them now is the First Amendment, which Paul would argue only applies to the federal government, and it does indeed start "Congress shall make no law ... "), or tortured confessions (Fifth Amendment), or a single state-controlled newspaper (First Amendment), &c. Original intent sounds good, it's easy to make fun of a "living" constitution, but some things have been settled over the years which might best be left settled.

Of course there is no chance that any part of Paul's program will ever become law. As he himself says, repeatedly, the governmental policies which have led to our most serious troubles, especially regarding the economy, are pursued by both parties. Since there is no viable third party, and none in prospect, there would appear to be no hope at all of realizing any of his major policies - we will not return to the gold standard much less abolish paper money, we will not abolish the Fed or limit its power to create money "out of thin air," we will not bring our troops home from all or even most of the 130 countries they are now in, we will not abandon the possibility of a draft, we will not cancel foreign aid, the incorporation doctrine will not be reversed. Paul has often been the sole dissenting vote in the House, unable to persuade a single member of his own party to vote with him - an admirable adherence to principle, no doubt, but not a harbinger of change.

What, then, is the message of this book? Realistically, it is that the American political scene is a hopeless mess, and that our economic future, even hope for the retention (or return) of our freedoms, is grim. We simply have no way of returning to the constitutional scheme which held us in such good stead for so long - after all, as Paul notes, our Founding Fathers warned us that if we ever lose the protections they put in place for us, we will never get them back. Well, we have manifestly lost many of them - that is the central theme of this book - so ... so, what? Get used to it? Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow the dollar collapses and the federal government starts rounding up dissidents?

I'm too old to be worried for myself, but I surely am worried for my children, but Paul has no useful advice for them. You can't keep people who want to be free down? Of course you can. Plenty of people in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Soviet Russia, Communist China, Wahabbi Saudi Arabia and many other despotisms wanted (want) to be free but were (are being) destroyed by the system - arrested without cause, tortured, starved, murdered. The Founding Fathers were surely right - a republic, they said, if you can keep it. We have for a long time been negligent about keeping our government under control. The Bush Administration, led by Cheney, believed we would not take any effective steps to protect our freedoms no matter how egregiously they were violated; so it violated them, egregiously, and we proved Cheney right. Will McCain put a stop to these violations of our freedoms? I doubt it. Will Obama? I hope so, but I won't hold my breath; after all, a Democratically controlled Congress has utterly failed to do so.

So, a fine book, a good man, but not, I fear, a prophet.