[mick]

Good post, friend. Boy does this bring back memories.

When I first read about Hank Rearden it motivated me to read a book first published by B.C.Forbes in 1917, “Men Who Are Making America Great”

Here are the first ten names in the Table of Contents:

J.Ogdon Armour
George F. Baker
A.C.Bedford
Alexander Graham Bell
Andrew Carnegie
H.P. Davison
Robert Dollar
W.L.Douglas
James B. Duke
T. Coleman DuPont

How many of us today can even recognize these great men and what they accomplished? I read the book and I can't even remember without looking. And not a politician among them. Do our schools teach anything about them ? Ha!
Today we look to the Barney Franks and B.Obamas to save us...we have become a pitiful people !

To me that is the great enduring value of this great book...to remind us that true heroes can still exist.....but only strong men and women can make it so.

[Publius]

There was no mention of George Westinghouse, so I assume he was dead by then.

[ScaniaBoy]

To me that is the great enduring value of this great book...to remind us that true heroes can still exist.....but only strong men and women can make it so.

Governor Palin's State of the State Address 2009 (full video)