Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse by Thomas E. Woods, Ron Paul (Foreword by)

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In Meltdown, the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis, New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr., explains what led up to the current economic crisis, who's really to blame, and why government bailouts won't work.

Dale Farris - Library Journal

Here, Woods (www.thomasewoods.com) offers a decidedly free-market, conservative approach to the worldwide financial collapse of 2008–09. He explains his take on what led up to the current economic crisis, who's really to blame (namely, the Federal Reserve System), and why government bailouts won't work. Woods's views will appeal to listeners concerned about how the financial crisis impacts them as well as to business leaders and investors wishing to be more enlightened about the crisis. Two-time Audie Award nominee Alan Sklar's (see Behind the Mike, LJ3/1/09) solid, steady reading helps sustain interest. [Audio clip available through www.tantor.com; the Regnery hc, published in February, spent ten weeks on the New York Times best sellers list.—Ed.]—Dale Farris, Groves, TX

Biography

Thomas E. Woods jr. is the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History" and" How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization," He holds a B.A. in history from Harvard and an M.A., an M.Phil., and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. A contributing editor of "The American Conservative" magazine, Woods has received the Templeton Enterprise Award, the O. P. Alford III Prize for Libertarian Scholarship, and an Olive W. Garvey Fellowship from the Independent Institute. He and his family live in Alabama, where he is a fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

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ALAN SKLAR has narrated over 75 audiobooks and earned numerous awards for his work. He has also provided the voice for thousands of corporate and medical videos, as well as many radio and TV commercials. He lives with his wife in New York.

Ron Paul, a ten-term congressman from Texas, is the leading advocate of freedom in our nation's capital. He has devoted his political career to the defense of individual liberty, sound money, and a non-interventionist foreign policy. Judge Andrew Napolitano calls him "the Thomas Jefferson of our day."
After serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force in the 1960s, Dr. Paul moved to Texas to begin a civilian medical practice, delivering over four thousand babies in his career as an obstetrician. He served in Congress from 1976 to 1984, and again from 1996 to the present. He and Carol Paul, his wife of fifty-one years, have five children, eighteen grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
Ron Paul, the "New York Post" once wrote, is a politician who "cannot be bought by special interests."
"There arefew people in public life who, through thick and thin, rain or shine, stick to their principles," added a congressional colleague. "Ron Paul is one of those few."