Update: It is #1 on the NYT Bestseller List too!
Below, please read Sandra's personal review of the book, see Ron Paul talking about it, and read other book-related material.
Video from Ron Paul: The Revolution: A Manifesto - NYT Bestseller List Debut #7
Posted April 30th, 2008
Ron Paul's Book is #1 on Amazon!
The book is also now officially a New York Times bestseller!!! It is at # 7 on the list, which was tracking the previous week.
Here is the link to the original video. Ron Paul's statement about the book is included below in this posting. Ron Paul has a new YouTube video channel here: RonPaulforLiberty
Check it out!!!Spread the word! Please view it, rate it and favorite it!
Michael Nystrom, Editor, www.dailypaul.comSandra made modifications to Nystrom's posting, primarily shortening it. For the complete posting, go to the original.
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My own copy of the book was ordered over a month ago and arrived April 28.
Sandra's update and book review, dated May 1, 2008
Ron Paul's book is FANTASTIC! It is highly relevant to citizens of both the United States and of Canada.
To Do List for Yourself and for Everyone:
Get the book and read it. Even read it multiple times.
Tell other people about it.
Gift the book to your family and friends. It's a worthwhile investment in both their future and your own.
Gift the book to libraries and schools, even multiple copies. Gift the book to the schools' history or social studies teachers.
Suggest to high schools and middle/junior high schools that they read this book in all American History and civics classes.
Sandra's Personal Commentary
Ron Paul's book sat unopened on the table for a couple of days. Last night, I began reading it, because I felt that I should, like reading it was a responsibility. And this morning, I had to force myself to put it down, or I would have continued reading all day.
Over the past several months of taking in Ron Paul videos, speeches, and campaign-related writings, I have come to deeply respect this man. He is extraordinarily well educated and articulate. He speaks about the Constitution, freedom, and the benefit of the People, rather than about himself. He is always respectful, straightforward, and consistent. How refreshing that is in a politician!
Because I believe Ron Paul to be absolutely capable of leading this country I have, for the first time in my life, become politically active. I take action to make a difference, including through this blog, and I believe that positive change is possible.
Reading the book is further expanding my belief in Ron Paul. The book format enables Dr. Paul to convey understanding of the issues in much greater depth. He provides perspective on the issues that spans from the days of the drafting of the U.S. Constitution to current times. Quotes from the Founding Fathers powerfully illustrate relevant points.
Technically, this is a campaign book, as Ron Paul discusses issues relevant to the 2008 Presidential campaign. But he wrote the book with the intention that it be relevant for many, many years. The education available here is timeless.
"I Hate History!" -- Transformed
Ever since 5th grade, I have said about myself, "I hate history." Had Ron Paul taught my social studies classes, had he authored my history textbooks, I would have been a true lover of history. Reading Ron Paul is engaging, both providing depth of understanding and drawing forth passion about the future of our country. I plan to purchase more of his books -- and he is a prolific writer and educator, to the tremendous benefit of our society. What a transformation for me, an ex-avoider of history and politics!
Ron Paul as a Founding Father
I now think of Ron Paul as being one of the Founding Fathers. It just happens that the beginning of his term of service was delayed 30+ years. In fact, his serving the United States of America today is of so much greater importance now than it would have been in the 1700's. In the 1700's there were many men speaking these truths. Today, Ron Paul's is a lone, yet confident and steady voice.
Sandra
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Ron Paul's book signing was the biggest ever at a major New York bookstore. Go to the original web posting to read some of the longer comments from people who were there. People really love this man and what he stands for.
Yesterday's Book Signing at Borders
April 28, 2008
Good news to report out of New York at yesterday’s book signing, where the books were sold out before Dr. Paul even showed up! The Borders staff informed our campaign that the biggest signing they ever had at that location, which is one of their flagships, was New York Giants star running back Tiki Barber, and then they mentioned that Dr. Paul’s signing was even bigger!
Thanks to all who came out to the event!
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March 3rd, 2008
The Preface of Ron Paul’s new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto
Copyright © 2008 by Ron Paul, Courtesy Grand Central Publishing.
Every election cycle we are treated to candidates who promise us "change," and 2008 has been no different. But in the American political lexicon, "change" always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power.
Real change would mean something like the opposite of those things. It might even involve following our Constitution. And that’s the one option Americans are never permitted to hear.
Today we are living in a fantasy world. Our entitlement programs are insolvent: in a couple of decades they will face a shortfall amounting to tens of trillions of dollars. Meanwhile, the housing bubble is bursting and our dollar is collapsing. We are borrowing billions from China every day in order to prop up a bloated overseas presence that weakens our national defense and stirs up hostility against us. And all our political class can come up with is more of the same.
One columnist puts it like this: we are borrowing from Europe in order to defend Europe, we are borrowing from Japan in order to keep cheap oil flowing to Japan, and we are borrowing from Arab regimes in order to install democracy in Iraq. Is it really “isolationism” to find something wrong with this picture?
With national bankruptcy looming, politicians from both parties continue to make multi-trillion dollar promises of “free” goods from the government, and hardly a soul wonders if we can still afford to have troops in – this is not a misprint – 130 countries around the world. All of this is going to come to an end sooner or later, because financial reality is going to make itself felt in very uncomfortable ways. But instead of thinking about what this means for how we conduct our foreign and domestic affairs, our chattering classes seem incapable of speaking in anything but the emptiest platitudes, when they can be bothered to address serious issues at all. Fundamental questions like this, and countless others besides, are off the table in our mainstream media, which focuses our attention on trivialities and phony debates as we march toward oblivion.
This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity that were once the birthright of Americans. Dissenters who tell their fellow citizens what is really going on are subject to smear campaigns that, like clockwork, are aimed at the political heretic. Truth is treason in the empire of lies.
There is an alternative to national bankruptcy, a bigger police state, trillion-dollar wars, and a government that draws ever more parasitically on the productive energies of the American people. It’s called freedom. But as we’ve learned through hard experience, we are not going to hear a word in its favor if our political and media establishments have anything to say about it.
If we want to live in a free society, we need to break free from these artificial limitations on free debate and start asking serious questions once again. I am happy that my campaign for the presidency has finally raised some of them. But this is a long-term project that will persist far into the future. These ideas cannot be allowed to die, buried beneath the mind-numbing chorus of empty slogans and inanities that constitute official political discourse in America.
That is why I wrote this book.
Ron Paul: Let's Take the Country by Storm - Again
by Ron Paul | April 30, 2008
Today is an exciting day for our campaign and our movement: my new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto, is officially released.
Although a short book, it is the product of many years of thought and action. It is a defense of the principles to which you and I have devoted our lives.
My friends are calling it "Ron Paul's legacy."
These principles - individual liberty, sound money, the Constitution, and the foreign policy of the Founding Fathers - have had no home in American politics for a very long time. With The Revolution: A Manifesto, I'm letting the establishment know we're not going away.
Finally, Americans can hear and judge these great American principles for themselves, instead of through an unfriendly media filter. And they can learn once and for all that they need not be satisfied with the phony choices the system offers them every four years. Another way really is possible.
Two days ago I did a book signing in New York at the Borders on Wall Street. All 530 copies had been sold before I even arrived.
They had underestimated you again.
Imagine the attention our cause and our principles could attract with a fantastic opening day today, with people marching into bookstores across the country for their copies. If it should become a publishing phenomenon, The Revolution: A Manifesto can fuel our revolution for a long time to come. You can make that happen.
I hope you enjoy this book, which was a real labor of love for me. Please spread the word.
And may the future be ours.
Ron Paul
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Now they’ve taken his latest book to the top of the Amazon.com bestseller list.
“The Revolution: A Manifesto”, released earlier this month, is currently No. 1 on the Web site’s list of top sellers, besting even Oprah’s latest Book Club selection.
“Despite a media blackout, this septuagenarian physician-turned-congressman sparked a movement that has attracted a legion of young, dedicated, enthusiastic supporters . . . a phenomenon that has amazed veteran political observers and made more than one political rival envious,” boasts the book’s product description, adding: “Candidates across America are already running as ‘Ron Paul Republicans.’”
From: CNN Associate Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand
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