Announcing the Tom Woods Book Giveaway
As regular readers know, I’ve become quite a fan of libertarian Tom Woods. He has a daily podcast which I listen to religiously, and he has published several books, many of which I have read, and more of which are on the “To Read” pile. He is the guy behind Liberty Classroom, and has prepared video/audio home school classes for high school students that can be appreciated by adults, about government and Western Civilization. I have purchased these courses and listened to more than 20 lessons in each course, and have learned a lot from each.
I don’t agree with Woods about everything, but I agree with him on an awful lot. He’s a great and entertaining writer and communicator, and his books are jam-packed with useful information.
Woods has a new book out: Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion
So: I have decided to reward people who have helped me out by sending them a free copy of the Kindle version of this book. True, it’s only $4, but that bargain-basement price allows me to share the book with a lot of people. It’s a real book — the print version runs 347 pages, and it covers a wide range of interesting libertarian topics.
Is there a catch? Well, sure, lots of ’em!
First of all, if I send it to you, I’d like you to make a real effort to read it. It’s a collection of shorter pieces, so feel free to browse the table of contents and start with whatever seems the most interesting.
Second, I’m going to limit the giveaway to the first 25 people who ask. (I may expand it to 50, but I have no plans to give away more than 50. I don’t have time for that.)
Third, I am going to give priority to people who have helped me out — including subscribers, people who have made donations, and people who have signed up for Woods’s Liberty Classroom (I get an always-disclosed kickback from that).
(Subscribers and people who have donated to me get the book, period, whether you’re the first person asking, the 26th, the 51st, or the 100th. Just tell me.)
That’s pretty much it. Tell me you’re going to read it, be someone who has helped me out (or who will), and I’ll send you the book.
Here’s what you have to do: email me at patterico AT gmail DOT com. Put “Tom Woods book” in the subject line. In the email, provide with with an email address that you have a Kindle or a Kindle app registered to. (You don’t need a Kindle to use a Kindle app.) Typically, that will be the email address that you use to access your Amazon account. When you send me the request, make sure to tell me that the email address you are providing is the one you have a Kindle app registered to. If you don’t tell me that, I am going to reply and ask you, because I’m not spending $4 without knowing for sure that it’s going to work.
If you want to tell me in the email how you’ve helped me out, it couldn’t hurt your chances — depending on the volume of requests I get.
I start a trial pretty soon, so give me a month, although my goal is to try to turn around requests as soon as I get them.
This book really looks great, folks. There’s a lot of stuff on the free market and the Fed and libertarian ideas in general. And Woods (like yours truly) has had an Internet fight with Mark Levin and lived to tell the tale — and his responses to Levin are part of the book. Anyone with an interest in libertarian ideas at any level will no doubt find something to enjoy. Even if you’re not a libertarian — in fact, especially if you’re not a libertarian — give it a try.
Let the giveaway begin!
Ding.
Patterico (9c670f) — 10/15/2014 @ 8:16 pmCan I score one?
JWB (c1c08f) — 10/15/2014 @ 8:55 pmJWB,
Gotta follow the instructions in the post.
One person has already taken me up on it, and that person has already gotten the book.
Patterico (9c670f) — 10/15/2014 @ 8:58 pmI r illiterate.
JWB (c1c08f) — 10/15/2014 @ 9:01 pmThat’s two given away. 23 to go. Maybe more; depends.
Patterico (9c670f) — 10/15/2014 @ 9:12 pmI’ve ordered the book (through your website, natch) on my own dime. Your recommendation is enough for a $4 gamble, and I’d rather not diminish your allocated copies.
I think I only ever blogged about Mark Levin once myself — I thought he was overwrought and inaccurate in describing Hillary Clinton as a “Trophy Wife” (c.f. Tom Wolfe’s “X-rays,” another kind of wife she’s not) — and the comments left by Levin’s fans still crack me up.
Beldar (fa637a) — 10/15/2014 @ 9:27 pmBeware: he starts the book with a set of broadsides against wars including Iraq. If that bothers you too much, skip over it. Again, browse the table of contents; there are many topics there that he has great arguments about, especially concerning the free market. He would want you to read the war stuff, but I just don’t want people to get turned off too easily.
Patterico (9c670f) — 10/15/2014 @ 9:34 pmThree books given away.
Patterico (9c670f) — 10/15/2014 @ 9:42 pmThank you for the disclosures, Patrick. But for myself, whether I agree isn’t the test of whether I’ve found something worth reading, else I’d have a pretty small potential library available to me.
Beldar (fa637a) — 10/15/2014 @ 11:34 pmwhat’s a Kindle, and what caliber does it fire?
Resident Evil’s Kimber fires 45ACP.
are they compatible?
redc1c4 (b340a6) — 10/16/2014 @ 1:18 amI sent you a book, Patterico. At the email you show here. Only $3.19, I’m not as rich as you.
nk (dbc370) — 10/16/2014 @ 4:20 amPatterico,
I’m going to read it, but I’m going to buy it myself. You’re just a poor government worker (big government strikes again!) and shouldn’t be on the hook for me to ready it.
Thanks for the book tip. Downloading it now.
Ryan (60001b) — 10/16/2014 @ 4:55 amYou have done a lot for me, Patterico. I’ll buy a copy myself so that “my” four bucks can go to someone else.
Appreciate all you do, sir.
Simon Jester (52c7e4) — 10/16/2014 @ 4:58 amI clicked through and bought my own. I’d just finished REMO, and was about to resume What I Saw In America, but I guess I’ll put this at the head of the stuff-on-the-Kindle-for-reading-time queue.
Eric Wilner (3936fd) — 10/16/2014 @ 5:16 amFrom the chapter headings, looks like a collection of cant and palaeo hobbyhorses. At least he stayed away from certain staples (the Jew-wirepuller discourse and the eugenicist/psychometric fixations appear to be absent).
Art Deco (ee8de5) — 10/16/2014 @ 7:35 amSince you bring it up, I write libertarian-infused science fiction in my copious spare time. The tenth novel in my series just went up today. This one covers free market economics, pornography, and Shakespeare.
Gregory of Yardale (2cb1cf) — 10/16/2014 @ 8:47 amI too clicked through and bought my own. I appreciate the offer but hopefully you can give them to people more in need (money or the ideas).
Tim (c5cd1e) — 10/16/2014 @ 9:43 amSo I’m curious…how many Ebola cases originating on US soil do you expect to see by EOY and/or by end of next year?
WTP (aca208) — 10/16/2014 @ 1:27 pmsorry…wrong thread…
WTP (41d24a) — 10/16/2014 @ 1:28 pmLooks like as many people have ordered it themselves as have taken me up on my offer. It remains open!
Patterico (9c670f) — 10/16/2014 @ 8:12 pmI’m sorry…but the war stuff is terrible…I had to go back and hit some Hitchens to restore some sanity…
Georganne (e37667) — 10/24/2014 @ 7:48 am