Product Description

In unyielding defense of personal liberty

In this selected collection of his syndicated newspaper columns, Walter E. Williams once again takes on the left wing's most sacred cows with provocative insights and brutal honesty. He offers his sometimes controversial views on education, health, the environment, government, law and society, race, and a range of other topics, always with an uncompromising reverence for personal liberty and the principles laid out in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

Do we want socialized medicine? Do peace treaties produce peace? What's wrong with education? What's discrimination? Do we really care about children? Is this the America we want? Williams answers these and other provocative questions with his usual unflinching candor. Although many of these thoughtful, hard-hitting essays focus on the growth of government and our loss of liberty, many others demonstrate how the tools of free market economics can be used to improve our lives in ways ordinary people can understand - not just in the realm of trade and the cost of goods and services but in such diverse areas as racial discrimination, national defense, and even marriage.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42388 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 390 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780817949129
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author

Walter E. Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and chairman of the economics department at George Mason University and a nationally syndicated columnist. Williams is the author of several books and more than sixty articles which have appeared in scholarly journals such as Economic Inquiry, American Economic Review, and Social Science Quarterly and popular publications such as Reader's Digest, Regulation, Policy Review, and Newsweek.

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Customer Reviews

A great primer
Dr Williams presents his arguments forcefully and in laymen's language so the messages sink in. He makes it plain that there is no such thing as an ideal government-sponsored solution and that the most effective and efficient method of ordering society is to let people make up their own minds on how best to allocate finite resources. This is a great read for young adults trying to understand how the world works.

Defending personal liberties
Liberty vs Tyranny is a fresh read for every citizen who is trying to understand how the world, economy and politics function. This is the first time I have come across Dr. Williams' works and by far this has been a great experience. This book consists of his selected collection of his syndicated newspaper columns and they're powerful and written very well. The facts are presented in a non-biased fashion and readers can judge for themselves which one they'd rather live under. An educational and informative read as far as I am concerned. Get this for your younger friends!

A nice selection of logical, well reasoned, columns
Once again, Mr. Williams has put together an excellent collection of some of his recent weekly columns. Mr. Williams has a way, by using layman's language and simple explanations, to get across to his reader the basic principles that tie liberty with the free market. In many instances he takes the "feel good - politically correct - ain't I a saint for believing in this" attitudes and points of view, and quickly and logically shows the fallacies and problems with these "good intentions". He is also good at illustrating the harm and, in some cases, the pure evil that emanates from those sanctimonious attitudes and the subsequent policies/laws that inevitably follow.

I know Mr. Williams doesn't consider himself a libertarian (or at least he claims that, at most, he's a libertarian with a small "l"), but I can find no one better who, on a weekly basis, can impart the libertarian point of view in such a logical and easy to comprehend manner as well as Walter Williams. In addition he uses some level of humor, occasionally, to make his point - always a plus in my book.

He's a true defender of liberty and the free market. His arguments have a firm foundation based in logic and reason - not "feeling". Keep up the good work, Mr. Williams, and continue the ongoing battle to defend liberty.