The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority

by Rose Wilder Lane and Wayne (intro) Lane, Rose Wilder) LePierre

Book Overview

Rose Wilder Lane an American journalist, travelwriter, novelist, and political theorist, lived from1886 until 1968. She was the daughter of LauraIngalls Wilder, and widely considered a silent... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930073002
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Fox & Wilkes
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A High School and College MUST READ

No wonder the publishers in 1943 did not push this book! It is filled with truth about Freedom and very educational. Not at all what anyone who likes to control people would want you to know about. What is Freedom, what are people operating with instead. What a great book. I am sorry no one ever had me read this book years ago. Such an uplifting style of writing. In this day and age, our Liberty and Freedom is slowly being taken away because we don't know what freedom is. This book explains it simply and with great examples. Thanks Rose Wilder Lane...

Just read it.

I've been recommending this book for years. I keep several extras on my shelf to give away. And, by the way...I'm a professional author, and I'm 'frugal'. Enough said.

Sparkling perspective on the nature of our species

"Here lies a planet, whirling in sunlit space..." From the opening words throughout the book to the concluding "...set the whole world free" Lane grabs you by the cerebellum and doesn't let go. (By the way, this book is not by Hanz Sennholz, it's by Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of Laura Engalls Wilder.) She admitted later that she'd introduced technical errors having written it "at white heat", yet the principles are as sound and unimpeachable as ever you'll read. If you've ever wondered about the nature of liberty and the history of freedom--from Jesus through Mohammed to America--read this book!

Concise, clear, educational, thorough, and interesting!

This is not only the clearest, most concise book of the worth, and means of achieving, individual freedom, but it reads like a well written novel. Insights from her travels; whether having dinner with the King of Albania, or visiting the centuries old cave dwellings in the same country or dealing with the mindless red tape in Paris, Ms Lane sifts through the socialist failures past and present in a thorough, yet entertaining fashion. Anyone with even a passing interest in the philosophy of freedom will benefit from this book. And libertarian book addicts will also learn something from the Timeliness of this 50 year old book, re-published this year.

Historic Book

History does not lie (unless liberals re-write it), and Lane uses it most effectivly to illuminate the folly and fraud of the perceived need for government interference in the affairs of economics and the lives of citizens. The book opens with an eloquent statement of the human condition that is a rudimentary prerequisite to any discussion of political philosophy, but commonly ignored. Lane then proceedes to expose one governmental failure after another, in chronological order, plagued by monarchy, collectivism, religion and the peoples own ingrained belief that they must be governed. This book will make you thirsty for more history!