Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

1952

Publication Information

27 Notre Dame Law. 662 (1951-1952).

Abstract

How To Keep Our Liberty: A Program for Political Action. By Raymond Moley. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1952. Pp. xxvii, 339. $4.00. — In this interesting and valuable book, Mr. Moley proposes to do something about the disturbed state of our political weather. Pertinently he says: "Merely to bewail a trend is not to correct it." The American wants to know what to do about it (viz., the preservation of his liberty). The threat to liberty is "Statism," which the author interprets to be "the intervention by government in economic, social and personal life." Statism is thus frankly and logically made the villain of Mr. Moley's piece. Liberty will be safe, according to the author, when the force of this unlawful and destructive intervention by government is hurled back and permanently disarmed.

Mr. Moley warns us that "the vote is the pay-off." Liberty cannot be saved by a mere scoring of debaters points. The voters must first be convinced and then induced to kill Statism at the polls. "How To Keep Our Liberty" analyzes the electorate from many interesting and novel points of view and proposes a definite plan of action. The millions who have ruefully asked themselves "what can I do about it" and then proceeded to do nothing at all, should read Mr. Moley's book from beginning to end.

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Reprinted with permission of Notre Dame Law Review (previously Notre Dame Lawyer).

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