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The Honest Libertarian
American Spectator ^ | 08 Mar 06 | Shawn Macoomber

Posted on 03/08/2006 6:13:45 AM PST by rellimpank

The most admirably fascinating aspect of the books Harry Browne wrote to accompany his two quixotic attempts to capture the White House for the Libertarian Party -- Why Government Doesn't Work (1995) and The Great Libertarian Offer (2000) -- was his total lack of any interest in sharing a story of personal growth.

George W. Bush's A Charge to Keep, for contrast, begins with a sappy convoluted discussion of the many wonders of evangelical sermons and the various Bush family inaugurations. John Kerry's A Call to Service opens with his mother's environmentalism, his father's diplomacy, and the "steady diet of civic obligation" his children have been "nurtured" on. John Edwards' Four Trials grabs immediately for the heartstrings by taking the first words of the book out of the mouth of a

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: harrybrowne; libertarian

1 posted on 03/08/2006 6:13:47 AM PST by rellimpank
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