Bruce Ramsey

ISBN 978-0-87004-465-6
Paper, 6x9, 309 pages, $17.95 s, $18.95

Old Right novelist and journalist Garet Garrett was one of the 20th century's great men of letters. Yet his life and work have been largely forgotten, just when his defense of peace and freedom is needed most. All hail Bruce Ramsey and Caxton Press for helping restore him, especially with this new biography. -- Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Ludwig von Mises Institute

At the age of 16, Bruce Ramsey stumbled across a little book adorned with the image of Lady Liberty holding an empty bowl. The book was Garet Garrett’s The People’s Pottage, and it was unlike anything Ramsey had ever read. Thus began his fascination with Garrett, a novelist, journalist and editor whose work was a precursor to today’s libertarians. In Unsanctioned Voice, Ramsey explores Garrett’s life and work as reflected in 14 novels and pamphlets and in dozens of essays in the Saturday Evening Post, the New York Times and other publications. In the mainstream journalism of his day, Garrett was the most eloquent enemy of Franklin Roosevelt’s government-expanding policies at home, and the Roosevelt and Truman military commitments abroad—and Garrett paid the price for it. Unsanctioned Voice is the story of a writer who found himself on the losing side of a national debate about the limits of government—a debate that is even more crucial today.