Liberty for all
Subtitle: a manifesto for reclaiming financial and political freedom
By: Rick Newman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781137279361
Subjects: American Dream; Personal Finance; Self-reliance; Liberty; Life skills
Description: Americans are increasingly dismayed with a broken political system and the big institutions they blame for a Darwinian economy (in which it's getting harder to get ahead). What they've lost sight of is the importance of self-reliance and personal initiative in every individual's quest for prosperity. Liberty For All pushes past the usual go-nowhere policy prescriptions to probe what ordinary people can do to build their own self-reliance and enhance their odds of success. In a wry and entertaining narrative, Rick Newman embarks on a quest to improve his own self-reliance by camping with "doomsday preppers," deconstructing the "rugged individualist" that politicians so often invoke, and detailing the ways we unnecessarily shackle ourselves. The result is a guide to enriching your prospects--and your life--by harnessing every freedom available.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Freezing for freedom; title: The liberty trap; title: A secret use for broken glass; title: Give me incandescent light bulbs, or give me death!; title: The five endangered freedoms; title: The myth of the rugged individualist; title: Dependency audit; title: Prepper mountain; title: The curse of comfort; title: American dream inflation; title: A little learning is still a dangerous thing; title: How Steve Jobs fumbled freedom; title: Freedom found.