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9 of 12 customers found the following review helpful:
I wish I could give this book more then 5 Stars, 2008-04-30
I just finished reading Jim Cramers Stay Mad For Life and I thought that was going to be the best book I have ever read well that was until I baught THE REVOLUTION by Ron Paul this book is a must read for everyone once you open it up and read the first couple of pages you wont set the book down until you finish so set aside a couple hours kick back and relax because you are about to read you new favorite book of all time.
12 of 15 customers found the following review helpful:
Just ordered two more copies for my parents, 2008-04-30
Im only half way through this book and I just ordered two more copies for my parents. Ron Paul is definitely the "Modern Day Thomas Jefferson", as Judge Napolitano has called him. If 10% of our country got their hands on this book we could start getting our country back on track almost over night, starting with a rethinking of our foreign policy. I'll be reading this book at least three times. Not only does he possess and communicate the beautiful ideas of freedom and liberty, he lives it. God Bless America and God Bless Ron Paul!
49 of 74 customers found the following review helpful:
 The Revolution = The Return, 2008-04-30
Texas Representative and Republican presidential candidate, Ron Paul, could have titled his new and important book, "The Revolution: A Manifesto" as "The Return: A Manifesto" -- as his revolutionary ideas are the very ones America's federal government has ignored over the past three decades. Conservatives have been described as "the progressives of an earlier era" and, yes, that remains true -- an era of national defense policy focused on our own country's infrastructure as much as on the violent fringe elements found in distant, Third World failed states, an era of a strong dollar based on real commodities, an era of new immigrants who arrive to produce and contribute rather than to consume and complain, an era when political discourse and debate was not so controlled by the puppet strings of corporate media stars who spend more time on their plastic surgery plans than on politics and ethics. Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, and Representative Ron Paul both offer our nation a radical new course of direct action -- Obama's is based on big government and collective, tax-funded entitlements for special interest groups, Paul's is based on unobtrusive government and individual responsibility geared toward the collective good. The choice is clear, now that our nation's greatest enemy and threat is our flagging collective selves. Ron Paul offers proven policies from the past, intelligently updated, that can illuminate and secure the path of America's future. Paul's book lays out that road in clear, well-rendered, prose, and "The Revolution" should be required reading for all Americans who intend to cast a (fully informed) ballot this November, 2008.
248 of 536 customers found the following review helpful:
 Libertarian dogmatism, 2008-04-30
I'm probably the only non-libertarian to review this book, so I expect a lot of unfavorable ratings. While I agree with much of what Paul says, there are clearly some weak spots in his argument. I would focus on two: health care and Islamic terrorism. Paul's analysis of health care is the usual Republican bromide: leave everything to the magic of the marketplace. He uses the specious example of the veterans' hospitals to make his case why national health insurance is a bad idea. What he fails to understand is that the problem of the VA hospitals arises because the government owns and runs the hospitals- which is not what health care reform advocates are proposing. What we are advocating is socialized insurance, where the government pays the bills but the doctors and hospitals are private. That's what France does, to take one example, and their health care system is vastly better than ours. I recommend Paul Krugman's book Conscience of a Liberal for an excellent argument for single-payer health care reform- also see Melvin Konner's Medicine at the Crossroads.
I also think Dr.Paul is a little too sanguine about the threat of Islamic terrorism. While many of the Bush administration's proposals go too far, we can't simply withdraw from the Middle East and hope the problem goes away. Having criticized him, I would like to praise his evaluation of the housing crisis, his proposal to legalize drugs, and his opposition to the Iraq occupation, among many other positions.
I appreciate Paul's consistency. I just can't take the whole package.
17 of 23 customers found the following review helpful:
Bought a copy for my kids too, 2008-04-30
This book is an awakening call to America, I just hope it's not too late. My daughter (16) and my son (14) both have a copy now, a very good investment in life and freedom.
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