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Freedom Book of the Year 2002
I am very pleased to announce the winners in our Freedom Book of the Year 2002 drawing.
Our fifth place winner is Jeff Eubanks of Washington state, who sounds like my kind of guy: he reads, shoots, and teaches himself more than his college does. Fourth place winner is Claire Joly, a Canadian RKBA activist, who said, "I'm so happy!" when she learned she'd won one of our book prize packages. Cato's head education wonk, David Salisbury, snagged third place; his response was a decidedly unwonkish, "Coooooooool!" These voters all received a collection of great libertarian books valued at about $100, including Limon Real, The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration, and a surprise prize -- Carl Bussjaeger's Prometheus-nominated book Net Assets (not announced so as not to influence the voting).
Our second place winner, in addition to the basic prize package, got a Hayek commemorative album and the Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life photo album. That prize went to "Shreya21", of Kenya. She was particularly thrilled, since she'd just been introduced to libertarianism last September, through the efforts of our partner organization, IREN Kenya. Our top winner, who got all this plus Mary Ruwart's new book Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression and Jarret Wolstein's Surviving Terrorism, is "Ghost Gray" from somewhere down south. He values his privacy, and commented simply, "Certainly appreciate this!" Thanks to all the winners for voting -- we hope you enjoy the books! And, of course, a big thanks to ISIL and Carl Bussjaeger for the prizes.
Now to the other winners ... the books themselves, that is. Interestingly enough, only one novel made the top five. From fifth to second place:
I doubt anyone is turning blue with suspense over the winner -- after all, this powerhouse author has won Freedom Book of the Year before, and both of his books were Freedom Book of the Month winners. That's right: winner of the Freedom Book of the Year for 2002 is Vin Suprynowicz for The Ballad of Carl Drega. I had the good sense to choose it as Freedom Book of the Month in my first time at bat; you can read my review elsewhere on this site.
Suprynowicz is one of the most principled, consistent, and hardcore libertarian writers around -- boy, I'm glad he's on our side. If you've already read Carl Drega, please check out Vin's newsletter "Privacy Alert".
Congratulations again, Vin -- and when's your next book coming out? ;-)
March 2003: The Rule of Lawyers, by Walter Olson
February 2003: Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths, edited by Ronald Bailey
December 2002: Blood of the Roses, by Alex Gabbard
November 2002: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, by Ludwig von Mises
October 2002: The Haunted Air, by F. Paul Wilson
September 2002: Lead Astray and Out of Bounds, Out of Control by Peter Samuel and James V. DeLong respectively
August 2002: Boston's Gun Bible II by Boston T. Party
July 2002: Economics for Real People by Gene Callahan
June 2002: Net Assets by Carl Bussjaeger
May 2002: The Ballad of Carl Drega by Vin Suprynowicz
April 2002: Toward Liberty: The Idea that is Changing the World edited by David Boaz
March 2002: Liberty for Women edited by Wendy McElroy
February 2002: The State vs. the People by Aaron Zelman and Claire Wolfe
Freedom Book of the Year, 2001: Hope by Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith
January 2002: Death by Gun Control by Aaron Zelman and Richard W. Stevens
December 2001: The American Zone by L. Neil Smith
November 2001: Ayn Rand and Business by Donna Greiner and Theodore Kinni
October 2001: Junk Science Judo by Steven J. Milloy
September 2001: Jonathan Gullible by Ken Schoolland
August 2001: Hope by L. Neil Smith and Aaron Zelman
July 2001: Dissenting Electorate edited by Wendy McElroy and Carl Watner
June 2001: Tethered Citizens by Sheldon Richman
May 2001: Lever Action by L. Neil Smith
April 2001: The Cato Handbook for Congress from the Cato Institute
March 2001: The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand by David Kelley
February 2001: Crypto by Steven Levy
January 2001: Total Freedom by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
Freedom Book of the Year 2000: Forge of the Elders by L. Neil Smith
December 2000: The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto
November 2000: Escape from Leviathan by J.C. Lester
October 2000: The Art of Political War by David Horowitz
September 2000: An Enemy of the State by Justin Raimondo
August 2000: The Triumph of Liberty by Jim Powell
July 2000: A Generation Divided by Rebecca Klatch
June 2000: Law's Order by David Friedman
May 2000: Forge of the Elders by L. Neil Smith
April 2000: Reciprocia by Richard G. Rieben
March 2000: The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers by Ayn Rand
February 2000: Addiction is a Choice by Jeffrey A. Schaler
January 2000: Revolutionary Language by David C. Calderwood
Special December 1999 Feature: The Freedom Book of the Year: Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998 by Vin Suprynowicz
November 1999: Conquests and Cultures by Thomas Sowell
October 1999: A Way To Be Free by Robert LeFevre, edited by Wendy McElroy
September 1999: Assassins (Left Behind) by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
August 1999: Don't Shoot the Bastards (Yet): 101 More Ways to Salvage Freedom by Claire Wolfe
July 1999: The Mitzvah by L. Neil Smith and Aaron Zelman
June 1999: The Incredible Bread Machine by R.W. Grant
May 1999: Send in the Waco Killers by Vin Suprynowicz
April 1999: It Still Begins with Ayn Rand by Jerome Tuccille
March 1999: The Dictionary of Free-Market Economics by Fred Foldvary
February 1999: Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand edited by Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Matthew Sciabarra
In December 2004 this page was modified significantly from its original form for archiving purposes.
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