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Title: It Still Begins With Ayn Rand by Jerome Tuccille ISBN: 1-58445-006-1 Publisher: Pulpless.Com Pub. Date: 31 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Sorry, this isn't really a sequel to the first book
Comment: The first book, "It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand", is a humorous intorduction to the libertarian movement as it was in its free-wheeling 1960s counterculture days. Unfortunately, this "sequel" I was looking forward to reading turned out to be not really worth the time. The first few chapters recount the author's 1974 run for governor of New York as a Libertarian, but after that is where any connection to the libertarian movement ends. Most of this book is simply a chronological political commentary on the Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton presidencies - from the perspective of a Reaganite, not a libertarian. It's obvious that Tuccille gave up on libertarianism after his 1974 run for office and went conservative. Here he attacks the very counterculture tendencies he celebrated in his first book. There is nothing here about the history of the libertarian movement since 1974, which is what I was hoping for, since this has been marketed as a sequel. I hoped to read, for example, something about the Koch family's involvement with the movement, about Ed Clark's 1980 run for president, and about Murray Rothbard's departure from libertarianism and conversion to paleo-conservatism in 1989. No such luck - you won't find it here. Buy "It Usually Begins..." instead.

Rating: 5
Summary: It never began with Ayn Rand.
Comment: This is a very funny book. But don't kid yourselves, folks - classical liberalism didn't begin with Ayn Rand, it began a very long time ago in Western religious tradition. Since Rand hated religion, she kept (some of) the conclusions and worked backwards to reach her (bad) arguments. The result is a sort of bastard philosophy that takes a Marxist/Leninist view of reality, dresses it up in religious language, and retains the conclusions of the religious traditions Rand rejected. Read John Robbins' Without A Prayer: Ayn Rand And The Close Of Her System to see through Rand's contradictions and learn where it REALLY began.

Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant satire...just as funny as It Usually Begins...
Comment: Tuccille has done it again. It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand was a hilarious political satire, and the sequel, It Still Begins With Ayn Rand, is every bit as funny and on target as its predecessor. My only regret is that it took Tuccille 26 years to write the sequel. However, for anyone who wants a truly original, off-beat history of U.S. politics from 1974 through the present day, this is a must read.

Joseph Walsh

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