I just got my copy of Ron Paul’s new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto. This is one of those books where the front matter is actually worth reading!

Preface

Every election cycle we are treated to candidates who promise us “change,”… But in the American political lexicon, “change” always means more of the same:….

….But instead of thinking about what this means for how we conduct our foreign and domestic affairs, our chattering classes seem incapable of speaking in anything but the emptiest platitudes, when they can be bothered to address serious issues at all. Fundamental questions like this, and countless others besides, are off the table in our mainstream media, which focuses our attention on trivialities and phony debates as we march toward oblivion….

….These ideas cannot be allowed to die, buried beneath the mind-numbing chorus of empty slogans and inanities that constitute official political discourse in America.

That is why I wrote this book.

It promises to be a great book, even though it’s a relatively short book, the table of contents demonstrates that it will get right to the meat of the issues:

  1. The False Choices of American Politics
  2. The Foreign Policy of the Founding Fathers
  3. The Constitution
  4. Economic Freedom
  5. Civil Liberties and Personal Freedom
  6. Money: The Forbidden Issue in American Politics
  7. The Revolution

I’m looking forward to reading this, and hope you’ll go pick up a copy for yourself, so we can discuss it together.