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: #52 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

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

My kind of politics
Reading Ron Paul is like going from the depths of hell into Disneyland. I share his vision for a free America. Sadly few others do. I have given up any hope for America's future and simply ripped up my voter registration card and will not vote until others realize what we have lost in the last 20 years.

Sandra Price
Arizona

Good overall, but far from flawless
In his latest book, Ron Paul maintains that, if we are to have "real change" in this country, we must break free from the "artificial limitations" that are so often imposed by the political and media establishments on free debate. And to do that, he argues, we must "start asking serious questions once again," instead of allowing said establishments dictate to us what questions we're allowed to ask.

In chapter one he rightly points out how American voters are being given "false choices" every election season, since the policy agendas of the two major parties are far more similar than different.

In his chapter on foreign policy, he takes neoconservatives to task for blurring the fundamental distinction "between isolationism and noninterventionism," and argues that it is actually they, not he, who are the "real isolationists," since they isolate the U.S. "in the court of world opinion by pursuing needless belligerence and war that have nothing to do with legitimate national security concerns." By engaging in such belligerence, Paul argues, our government has merely stirred up "hornet's nests," and thereby made us "more" vulnerable to attack "than we would otherwise have been."

In chapter 3 he does an admirable job of explaining why Constitutional phrases such as "general welfare" and "necessary and proper" do not, in fact, given an "open-ended character" to the powers granted to Congress in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. Nor, Paul correctly asserts, is there anything in the Constitution that allows Congress to "delegate" any of its powers to the executive branch.

In chapter 4 Paul points out the multiple ways government engages in "legal plunder" -- whether directly through taxation or indirectly through "regulatory schemes" that protect politically-connected businesses from price-lowering competition. To that extent he is on solid ground. He is on very weak ground, however, when he parrots the Austrian school's fairy tale view of the Gilded Age (see Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 (Vintage), blindly denying that corrupt monopolies were defrauding or fleecing consumers, that laborers were (in many cases) being forced to work for slave wages, and that "giant corporations" did not routinely and effectively engage in anticompetitive behavior. He also makes the exaggerated claim that the American economy was "starved for capital" during that era, and that this was the primary reason so many people were poor, when the reality is that capital often sat idle due to land speculation-caused depressions (see Progress and Poverty - edited and abridged for modern readers by Bob Drake). Fortunately, he returns to solid ground when he accurately characterizes organizations like the WTO and NAFTA as "government-managed trade schemes" that, as such, have nothing to do with "genuine free trade"

The "civil liberties" chapter alone is worth the price of the book. Here Paul exposes how control-freak politicians, in the name of "protecting" us from terrorists, have waged a virtual terrorist attack of their own on the very "freedoms" for which Muslim extremists supposedly hate us; and proposes as a solution to this outrage the enactment of his "American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007." He also explains why the drug war is a failed, destructive and unconstitutional war, and why ending this war would greatly reduce if not eliminate many of the problems that countless people mistakenly attribute to drugs themselves.

As one who both contributed to Ron Paul and voted for him in the primary, I'm sad to say chapter 6 is by far my least favorite chapter, and the main reason I couldn't give the book 5 stars. Although I agree with him that we urgently need to reform the current money system, I'm convinced, after reading this chapter, that he has a very limited understanding of both the nature and history of money (see The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money, The Story of Power), and that this limited understanding causes him to advocate a deflationary cure that is actually far worse than the inflationary disease. Among the many facts he ignores (however unknowingly) in this chapter are:

* that the worst depressions in U.S. history (including the Great Depression) all occurred under his beloved "gold standard";
* that debt-based fiat money is fundamentally different from debt-free fiat money (see the documentary film, "The Money Masters");
* that the average person was significantly poorer in 1932 than in 1928, even though the value of the gold-backed dollar was significantly higher in 1932 than in 1928;
* that money is uncreated whenever the principal of a bank loan is repaid, and that the money supply would therefore collapse - and the economy along with it - if everyone, including the government, got out of debt; and
* that banks never create the money needed to pay the interest on all the money-supply expanding loans they make, and how this actually creates a built-in SHORTAGE of money.

Those wishing to have a full understanding of the money issue would be much better served reading Ellen Brown's masterwork, Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free (Revised and Updated).

The 7th and final chapter is mostly a summary of the previous six, and a stirring call to action. "The empire game our government has been playing," Paul concludes, "is coming to end one way or another. This is the fate of all empires: they overextend themselves and then suffer a financial catastrophe....We are already seeing the pattern emerging in our own case. We can either withdraw gracefully, as I propose, or we can stay in our fantasy world and wait until bankruptcy forces us to scale back our foreign commitments. Again, I know which option I prefer."

And so do I. Thank you, Ron Paul, for writing this book (even if you are innocently mistaken on the gold standard ;-)).

Unprecedented Times
Absolutely enlightening book about the reason for the destruction of our great country by means of stealth and strategy. The whistleblower of all whistleblowers! Sound money, the public education system, foreign policy... this man knows it yet what he says goes the contrary to the status quo. Must must read!