2 Salvos get 5 Stars from 1 Top 50 Amazon Reviewer

Doug Erlandson is a Top 50 Reviewer in Amazon's pantheon of Top 100 Customer Reviewers (he's currently #45), a writer, taught philosophy at the University of Nebraska (my home state) after having earned his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. He self-identifies as a former anarchosyndicalist and currently as a "radical decentralist."

  Doug Erlandson Amazon Reviewer photo, bookended by Salvo1 and Salvo2

When I first approached Doug Erlandson about taking a break from his normal heavy philosophizing to review my Selected Salvos 2 book he responded with "I am sympathetic to libertarianism, so I'm sure I'll find these essays interesting" and when I mentioned my first book he said, "I'm sure I'll also enjoy Selected Salvos 1."

That meant two reviews for the price of none!

For Selected Salvos 1, under the heading "Good primer on what libertarianism is" he begins with: "This is a fun book to read" and describes it as "lighthearted, humorous, occasionally self-deprecating, and now and then acerbic."

Read his entire review here along with one other Five Star review.

His Review of Salvos 2 is titled "Thoughtful libertarian fare" and makes the point that "If you have libertarian leanings you'll love what Mr. Reed has to say. If you don't, you probably won't read this book (even though you should)" and then concludes with "I highly recommend Volume 2 of 'Selected Salvos,' just as I did Volume 1."

This entire review is here along with another pair of 5-star reviews.

Amazon Top 50 Reviewer, taught philosophy in my home state, is libertarian minded and gave me ten stars for two books. Thanks Doug Erlandson!

Read the books yourself, enjoy them, and write your own reviews:

Selected Salvos 2 is available in Paperback / ePub / iTunes / Kindle
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/lf7px2g	Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/okqacn3
Barnes&Noble: http://tinyurl.com/o339l2o	Goodreads: http://tinyurl.com/khvrvox
Lulu: www.lulu.com/spotlight/salvospot	YouTube: http://youtu.be/MYFWQlTIYPs

 

Free McDuck Capitalism article from Salvos 1

After my Selected Salvos 2 book and free excerpt was posted at, disappeared from, and reappeared on BookDaily the good folks there invited me to post up a free excerpt from my first book, Selected Salvos 1, as I'd already done for Selected Salvos 2.

So once again I've offered up the leadoff article, this one being "Scrooge McDuck Capitalism." Two things about this article:

1. Back when I wrote it in 2002 whenever I said "capitalism" I always had in mind "The Laissez-Faire Free Market" definition of that word. Since then I've discovered that in many people's minds "capitalism" means "Corporatism" or "Government-Corporatist-Bankster-Masonic-Bilderberger-Iluminatti-One World Space Alien Conspiracy" which as a libertarian I utterly reject. These days I eschew the term "capitalism" altogether and just say "free market."

2. In 2004 I received this email:

"I’m a high school economics teacher.  Your essay [Scrooge McDuck Capitalism] will be both interesting and valuable to my students.  I am printing a class set."

Here's a teaser for the article. Please visit BookDaily to read the entire excerpt:

Scrooge McDuck Capitalism

I learned about capitalism long before I'd ever heard of "the free market" or "libertarianism." I learned everything I ever needed to know in my youth, with my head burrowed deep under the bedcovers, reading Scrooge McDuck comic books by flashlight.

Read the entire "Sample Chapter" here: http://tinyurl.com/kyzc4qt

Selected Salvos 1 & 2 are available in Paperback / ePub / iTunes / Kindle
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/lf7px2g	Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/okqacn3
Barnes&Noble: http://tinyurl.com/o339l2o	Goodreads: http://tinyurl.com/khvrvox
Lulu: www.lulu.com/spotlight/salvospot	YouTube: http://youtu.be/MYFWQlTIYPs

Fantastic Collection of Libertarian Articles!!

An Amazon Customer Reviewer named "Fundamentalist" strikes again. Back on March 26 I reported how I unexpectedly stumbled upon this reader's review of my first book, Selected Salvos from the Loose Cannon Libertarian. Following his link to his "Activity" page I found his entire write-up tucked in amongst reviews of a toaster oven, a heating pad and a video.

This time his review of the Kindle Edition of Salvos 2 ranks right up there with his Five Star Review of my first Salvos book.

Fundamentalist is, of course, a pseudonym for our anonymous reviewer. "I picked the name since I am a Christian and because it sounds funny," he confided once I was able to track him down. If he thought "Fundamentalist" was funny I offered to publish his real name along with my own funny description of Fundamentalist:

"How do you help an insolvent mind reader?" "Fund a mentalist." He responded with "Puleeeeze do not use my name. Let’s just stick with Fundamentalist (or whatever permutation of it that sounds good)."

Or sounds like a horrible pun?

Read both of his Salvo reviews on Amazon and then check these out:

Selected Salvos 2 is available in Paperback / ePub / iTunes / Kindle
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/lf7px2g	Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/okqacn3
Barnes&Noble: http://tinyurl.com/o339l2o	Goodreads: http://tinyurl.com/khvrvox
Lulu: www.lulu.com/spotlight/salvospot	YouTube: http://youtu.be/MYFWQlTIYPs

Blue Collar Economist reviews Playboynomics in Salvos 2

Who/What is the Blue Collar Economist? "Whether it’s minimum wage, price gouging, welfare, inflation or deflation, the Blue Collar Economist will dispel the myths. Changing one’s ideology to fit the truth is more honest than changing the truth to fit the ideology." – Robert A. McKeown, The Blue Collar Economist

After reviewing Selected Salvos 1 a year ago Robert was kind enough to take a second shot at the second Salvo.

From his review: "One of my favorite articles is, 'Uncle Shazam and His Magical Logic' where the reader finds example after example where the rubber hits the road in the school of Playboynomics. What is Magical Logic, you might ask? It’s a mental impairment of the governmentally afflicted. I believe 'governmentally afflicted' ought to be the next viral term on social media."

Read the entire review from Robert!

And then listen to Robert who recently appeared with Joe Cristiano on BlogTalk Radio at this link!

  

Selected Salvos 2 is available in Paperback / ePub / iTunes / Kindle
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/lf7px2g	Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/okqacn3
Barnes&Noble: http://tinyurl.com/o339l2o	Goodreads: http://tinyurl.com/khvrvox
Lulu: www.lulu.com/spotlight/salvospot	YouTube: http://youtu.be/MYFWQlTIYPs

Dallas LP Newsletter interviews Selected Salvos 2 Author

Curry B. Taylor, Vice-Chair of the Libertarian Party of Dallas County and Editor-In-Chief Extraordinaire of the LPDC Newsletter cross-examined a suspicious character purporting to be some sort of sassy essayist.

Following a faux introduction in the April 2015 edition awash with insider snortles (snickers + chortles) Taylor introduced the Selected Salvos 2 author with an obvious attempt to either Curry favor or flavor with Curry: "Garry Reed does have a smashing new book out, and I picked his prolific brain about it in this interview."

Slim pickings.

A sample Q&A:

Taylor: Sex sells. Are your "Playboynomics"-themed chapters in the book a thinly-veiled attempt at appealing to the hedonist in all of us, or is there a much larger and deeper hidden agenda?

Reed: I'm compiling articles 20 per book and I realized I had these two Playboy themed articles written close to the same time so I decided to make "Playboynomics" the theme for this edition which also covers several of the other economically-themed articles. Besides, sex sells.

Mind your Ps and Qs while you read all of the Qs and As in this PDF edition of the LPDC Newsletter: CANON FROM A LOOSE LIBERTARIAN: AN INTERVIEW:

http://lpdallas.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/LPDC-Newsletter-April-2015.pdf 

Selected Salvos 2 is available in Paperback / ePub / iTunes / Kindle
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/lf7px2g	Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/okqacn3
Barnes&Noble: http://tinyurl.com/o339l2o	Goodreads: http://tinyurl.com/khvrvox
Lulu: www.lulu.com/spotlight/salvospot	YouTube: http://youtu.be/MYFWQlTIYPs

MAMA LIBERTY reviews Salvos 2 AND its author

Susan Callaway, known to many libertarians as weblogger "The Price of Liberty" and affectionately to many others as "Mama Liberty" wrote a review and posted it several places on Amazon and on Barnes&Nobel, B&N Nook Books and her own website "The Price of Liberty."

Photo: Susan "Mama Liberty" Callaway: Wyoming woman with website and weaponry.

As Mama puts it, she and I have "talked a lot about most aspects of freedom and politics, not always in agreement by a long shot" but does note that these formative-era articles and the introductory material by the author in his latest book Selected Salvos 2 "describe the journey from Libertarian political apologist to the voluntarist he has become."

The best part is, of course, is when she says stuff like "this journey is taken with wit, much terrific insight into humanity, and an unbelievable number of plain old belly laughs."

Read her double review (of the book and its author) on her own place on the Internet – "The Price of Liberty" – and then learn more about the book at these places: 

Selected Salvos 2 is available in Paperback / ePub / iTunes / Kindle
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/lf7px2g	Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/okqacn3
Barnes&Noble: http://tinyurl.com/o339l2o	Goodreads: http://tinyurl.com/khvrvox
Lulu: www.lulu.com/spotlight/salvospot	YouTube: http://youtu.be/MYFWQlTIYPs

Read one SALVO article FREE!

Selected Salvos 2 is now WAS on BookDaily and it includes One FREE Article from the book!

BookDaily encourages authors to post excerpts of their books for readers to read free. They suggest posting an entire chapter, but since my book is only 74 pages long and consists of 20 articles that average 750 words each that means every article is a chapter in itself. And since each article is so short you get to read one whole article gratis.

So I've decided to give you the opening salvo. It set's up the "Playboynomics" meme of the book, which really isn't entirely about Playboynomics or even entirely about economics but once you think about it nearly everything in life has an economic component to it. As Mises pointed out, economics is just Human Action.

HERE ARE A COUPLE OF TEASER PARAGRAPHS:

"TAX DOLLARS FOR SEX SCHOLARS" at BookDaily

Can't afford cumquats for your cumquat soup? Getting haircuts every other month to save a few bucks? Still driving that 1988 Yugo because a down payment for something better is out of your reach? Northwestern University psychology Professor Michael Bailey appreciates your sacrifices. He's using your tax money to pay women $75 a pop to find out, as the New York Post puts it, "what types of audiovisual erotica women find sexually arousing."

(It's "audiovisual erotica" when it's taxpayer funded. If you and I pay our own money to watch it, it's "porno." And don't forget that tax money funds research on "sexual arousal." Without tax money, it's just plain old civil society "horniness.")

UPDATE:

Unfortunately my excerpt has disappeared from BookDaily. They must have stamped it with a Sell By Date I didn't know about. Fortunately all is not lost. You can still read the excerpt/full article here:

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/7881657-first-article-from-selected-salvos-2

Thanks anyway BookDaily.

UPDATE UPDATE:

BookDaily finally responded after two weeks. The Selected Salvos 2 page is now back in its accustomed place with the first full article available for your reading pleasure:

http://tinyurl.com/nhrmjhh

 

Selected Salvos 2 is available in Paperback / ePub / iTunes / Kindle
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/lf7px2g	Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/okqacn3
Barnes&Noble: http://tinyurl.com/o339l2o	Goodreads: http://tinyurl.com/khvrvox
Lulu: www.lulu.com/spotlight/salvospot	YouTube: http://youtu.be/MYFWQlTIYPs