Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Ecstasy!

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Give Me Liberty Or Give Me X

'In his new book, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (PublicAffairs), Brian Doherty takes readers through Libertarianism's strange and storied past. A senior editor for the Lib publication, Reason magazine, Doherty traces the evolution of the movement from the Declaration of Independence ("Hard to imagine a more Libertarian document") through Libertarianism's intellectual proclivities (Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is a venerated text), and beyond to the party's more fringe cultural moments—like Howard Stern's failed publicity stunt of running for governor of New York under the LP flag in 1994.



'A serious look at the movement as well as an entertaining tell-all about the LP's movers and shakers, the book sheds light on an eccentric and misunderstood political party. In some cases, eccentric and misunderstood being well-earned descriptors: In the '50s, for instance, after one particular sect began cavorting with writer Gerald Heard—a close friend to psychedelic scribe Aldous Huxley— the group started experimenting with LSD, as a tool for learning how to understand and reshape society. Doherty, in fact, is himself a link between Libertarianism and anarcho-psychedelics. Prior to writing Radicals for Capitalism, he penned This is Burning Man, a book about the annual week-long festival held in the Nevada desert, which consists mainly of engaging in mind-bending drugs and uninhibitive sex.'

Radar Online article here - http://radaronline.com/features/2007...pitalism_1.php