book publishing announcement - I AM JOHN GALT by Don Luskin

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[FreeKeys]

	You've sent me emails in the past, commenting on my appearances on CNBC's Kudlow Report, my columns for the Wall Street Journal, National Review, SmartMoney or TheStreet.com, my Krugman Truth Squad column, or my blog The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor & Stupid. So I thought you'd like to know that thanks to the encouragement of people like you, I've written a book that brings together all the ideas I've been talking about, writing about and blogging about over the past ten years. My new book, written with Andrew Greta, is called I Am John Galt, and it was just published by Wiley. I think it's a book you'd like to read. Want a free signed copy? Skip to the bottom of this message to see how you can get one.  I Am John Galt is a hymn to free men, free minds and free markets. It's a loving look at the heroes who are living those values and moving the world forward. It's also a crushing no-holds-barred indictment of the parasites who are trying to destroy our world of freedom and prosperity. Want to learn more fast? Watch my short video about it. You probably recognize the name "John Galt." He was the hero of Atlas Shrugged, the great novel by Ayn Rand that has been a touchstone for freedom-lovers for over 50 years. We use Galt and the other epic heroes from Atlas, and from Rand's other great novel The Fountainhead, to explain how today's real-life heroes are creating wealth for themselves and the world by following Rand's philosophy of freedom. And we use Rand's villains to explain how today's real-life villains are using politics, big business and the media for their own power-mad ends, at the expense of your prosperity and your freedom. Here's what my friend Larry Kudlow says about I Am John Galt: "Love her or hate her, Ayn Rand and I agree that free-market capitalism is the best way to prosperity. Her books show that capitalism and capitalists always triumph, no matter what the odds. Real life can work the same way if you have courage, integrity and idealism. The real-life capitalist heroes that Don Luskin and Andrew Greta write about in this book prove it." Here are the real-life heroes and villains you'll meet in I Am John Galt:
	The Individualist: Steve Jobs as Howard Roark, the man who reinvented four industries just because it was so cool
	The Mad Collectivist: Paul Krugman as Ellsworth Toohey, the man who preaches socialism from the pages of America’s newspaper of record
	The Leader: John Allison as John Galt, the man who walked away after building America’s strongest bank
	The Parasite: Angelo Mozilo as James Taggart, the businessman who co-opted government and nearly wrecked the U.S. economy
	The Persecuted Titan: Bill Gates as Henry Rearden, the businessman who created revolutionary technologies and was criminalized for his success
	The Central Planner: Barney Frank as Wesley Mouch, the politician who meddled in the economy and almost destroyed it
	The Capitalist Champion: T. J. Rodgers as Francisco d’Anconia, the modern Renaissance man, and agent provocateur for capitalism
	The Sellout: Alan Greenspan as Robert Stadler, the libertarian who became an economic czar
	The Economist of Liberty: Milton Friedman as Hugh Akston, the academic who showed the world the connection between capitalism and freedom
	Here's what my friend Arthur Laffer says about I Am John Galt: "Our world today is just like Ayn Rand's novels -- it's a battleground of ideas. We are watching play out a war of intrusive government, corrupt businessmen and sell-out economists versus the innovators, entrepreneurs and just plain working people who make the world grow. Don Luskin and Andrew Greta report from the front lines, showing that there are still great people achieving big things, standing defiantly against the enemies of growth." And now for my special offer to you. If you're one of the first ten people to reply to this email, I'll send you a personally inscribed hardback first edition of I Am John Galt. All you have to do is reply letting me know your name for the inscription, and your postal address so I can mail it to you. Or you can buy I Am John Galt online at Amazon, for Kindle, or at Barnes & Noble. Or you can find it at your local bookseller. If they aren't carrying it, demand it!

[FreeKeys]

This is the text of an email I just got from the author. I just wanted to share it.

[FreeKeys]

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[DaxtonBrown]

Well, we are all Going Galt in one way or another, we will be forced into it by economic collapse. The next recession is just gathering storm right now, set off perhaps by European failures.

Here’s my book on going galt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX-zTTgB-hE

[C. Edmund Wright]

I like Don Luskin, but I don’t like his casting very much in some cases. I’ll probably still read the book though.

[familyop]

http://www.futurnamics.com/

It looks good to those of us who trust real engineers more than fictitious ones. Thanks.

[spokeshave]

Noticed a bumper sticker the other day..

GALT/Rearden, '12

[spokeshave]

I could live with Allison/Rogers in '12

Regarding TJ....

He instituted a personal responsibility system at Cypress Semiconductor.

Anyone late in signing off on documents gets their pay check stopped.

So TJ goes off to Tokyo with his VP's annual review docs on his desk.

Pay check stopped, credit card maxed out....mortgage payment not made....and stuck in Tokyo sans funds.

[FreeKeys]

I like Don Luskin, but I don’t like his casting very much in some cases. I’ll probably still read the book though.

Funny, a couple of years ago I told him he should go for the John Galt part in the movie. I like his screen presence and pleasant, but authoritative way of speaking. He thanked me graciously.

[nina0113]

I like Don Luskin, but I don’t like his casting very much in some cases.

Alan Greenspan is dead on.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Luskin is very good on Kudlow’s show IMO - just a little ting of sarcasm when necessary and is very authoritative indeed. Great command of his material.