The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America - Hannan, Daniel Review & Synopsis

Synopsis In World War II, American soldiers went overseas to rescue England from the Nazi menace. Now, with America threatened from within by the specter of social democracy, British politician Daniel Hannan returns the favor. The New Road to Serfdom is a must-read rallying cry for Tea Party activists, fans of Mark Levin's Tyranny and Liberty, and anyone who has seen Hannan's hard-hitting interviews with Hannity & Colmes, Neil Cavuto, and Glenn Beck. A former president of the Oxford Conservative Association, and a member of the EU Parliament, Hannan has the insight and experience to help America recapture its distinctive ideals and avoid turning into a socialist state. Review

A prominent British conservative warns Americans to stop President Obama from leading their country down the path to European-style socialism.

In March 2009, British conservative Daniel Hannan became a celebrity overnight when he assailed prime minister Gordon Brown on the floor of the European Parliament. The YouTube clip went viral, leading to whirlwind appearances on FOX News and other conservative media outlets. A thoughtful and articulate spokesman for conservative ideas, Hannan is better versed in America's traditions and founding documents than many Americans are. In The New Road to Serfdom, Hannan argues forcefully and passionately that Americans must not allow Barack Obama to take them down the road to European Union-style social democracy. He pleads with Americans not to abandon the founding principles that have made their country a beacon of liberty for the rest of the world. Daniel Hannan is a writer and politician. He contributes to several newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal and the London Daily Telegraph. A former president of the Oxford University Conservative Association, he was elected to the European Parliament in 1999, at the age of 27, and has been twice reelected. The New Road to Serfdom In World War II, American soldiers went overseas to rescue England from the Nazi menace. Now, with America threatened from within by the specter of social democracy, British politician Daniel Hannan returns the favor. The New Road to Serfdom is a must-read rallying cry for Tea Party activists, fans of Mark Levin’s Tyranny and Liberty, and anyone who has seen Hannan’s hard-hitting interviews with Hannity & Colmes, Neil Cavuto, and Glenn Beck. A former president of the Oxford Conservative Association, and a member of the EU Parliament, Hannan has the insight and experience to help America recapture its distinctive ideals and avoid turning into a socialist state. In The New Road to Serfdom, Hannan argues forcefully and passionately that Americans must not allow Barack Obama to take them down the road to European Union–style social democracy." The New Criterion December 2010 The New Criterion, now co-edited by the art critic Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball, was founded in 1982 by Mr. Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman. A monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, The New Criterion began as an experiment in critical audacity-a publication devoted to engaging, in Matthew Arnold's famous phrase, with the best that has been thought and said. This also meant engaging with those forces dedicated to traducing genuine cultural and intellectual achievement, whether through obfuscation, politicization, or a commitment to nihilistic absurdity. We are proud that The New Criterion has been in the forefront both of championing what is best and most humanely vital in our cultural inheritance and in exposing what is mendacious, corrosive, and spurious. Published monthly from September through June, The New Criterion brings together a wide range of young and established critics whose common aim is to bring you the most incisive criticism being written today. Daniel Hannan The New Road to Serfdom : A Letter of Warning to America . ... we really need to be warned about what's happening to America by a British Member of the European Parliament who lives in Brussels? Daniel Hannan is the ..." Myth America In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past. The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible and imperiling our democracy. In Myth America, Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of fellow historians to push back against this misinformation. The contributors debunk narratives that portray the New Deal and Great Society as failures, immigrants as hostile invaders, and feminists as anti-family warriors—among numerous other partisan lies. Based on a firm foundation of historical scholarship, their findings revitalize our understanding of American history. Replacing myths with research and reality, Myth America is essential reading amid today’s heated debates about our nation’s past. With Essays By Akhil Reed Amar • Kathleen Belew • Carol Anderson • Kevin Kruse • Erika Lee • Daniel Immerwahr • Elizabeth Hinton • Naomi Oreskes • Erik M. Conway • Ari Kelman • Geraldo Cadava • David A. Bell • Joshua Zeitz • Sarah Churchwell • Michael Kazin • Karen L. Cox • Eric Rauchway • Glenda Gilmore • Natalia Mehlman Petrzela • Lawrence B. Glickman • Julian E. Zelizer Maza, Thinking About History, 5; Lynne Cheney, “The End of History,” Wall Street Journal, October 20, 1994; ... helpful: Greg Grandin , The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (New York: ..." The Big Myth "A carefully researched work of intellectual history, and an urgently needed political analysis." --Jane Mayer “[A] scorching indictment of free market fundamentalism ... and how we can change, before it's too late.”-Esquire, Best Books of Winter 2023 The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America's most tenacious--and destructive--false ideas: the myth of the "free market." In their bestselling book Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway revealed the origins of climate change denial. Now, they unfold the truth about another disastrous dogma: the “magic of the marketplace.” In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with “big government” and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks, combat unions, and defend child labor. They detail the ploys that turned hardline economists Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman into household names; recount the libertarian roots of the Little House on the Prairie books; and tune into the General Electric-sponsored TV show that beamed free-market doctrine to millions and launched Ronald Reagan's political career. By the 1970s, this propaganda was succeeding. Free market ideology would define the next half-century across Republican and Democratic administrations, giving us a housing crisis, the opioid scourge, climate destruction, and a baleful response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Only by understanding this history can we imagine a future where markets will serve, not stifle, democracy. How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway ... .foxnews.com/story/the- road -to- serfdom ; Daniel Hannan , The New Road to Serfdom : A Letter of Warning to America , 1st ed." Utopian Road to Hell "William Murray provides a unique perspective that should be read, particularly by America's youth, at a time central planners are once again promising utopian dreams at a cost to the most productive among us.” ―Governor Mike Huckabee Utopian dreamers are deceived and deceiving. Their “fight for the people” rhetoric may sound good at first, but history proves egalitarian governments and the cultures they try to create destroy freedom, destroy creativity, destroy human lives, create poverty and misery, and often spread beyond their borders to bring others under slavery. Utopians believe that through their own personal brilliance a better society can be created on earth. When the belief in man as a creation in the image of God is completely rejected, the use of slavery and mass execution can be justified in the name of the creation of a utopian state for the masses. Pol Pot, Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung―together these so-called visionaries through their fanciful policies are responsible for the deaths of millions of people. In Utopian Road to Hell William J. Murray, son of atheist apologist Madelyn Murray O’Hair, describes the totalitarians throughout history and the current utopians who are determined to engage in social engineering to control the lives of every person on earth. From Marx to Hitler, Murray explains the progression of socialist engineering from its occultist roots to the extreme madness of the Nazis’ nationalistic racism. From Margaret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood and Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, the rebellious desire to be free from morality drives the “at-any-cost” campaigns such as abortion on demand, no-fault divorce, same-sex marriage, and overreaching government provisions. From Woodrow Wilson’s “living document” distortion of the Constitution and his income tax to FDR’s New Deal to Obama’s executive orders, those who seek centralized power typically do so by proclaiming some utopian scheme that they claim will perfect mankind and eliminate competition, greed, poverty, and war. William J. Murray masterfully educates us on the utopians’ swath of destruction throughout history and warns us of the dangers of present-day utopians fighting to hold power. We must heed the warning of George Washington when he said in his 1796 Farewell Address that it is important for those entrusted with the administration of this great and free nation, “to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another.” We must reclaim the freedom of the individual to avoid the continued path down the utopian road to hell. Enslaving America and the World with Central Planning William J. Murray ... Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America , vol. 2, 808–9. 13. ... Daniel Hannan , The New Road to Serfdom : A Letter of Warning to America , Broadside Books ed." The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness Presenting prehistoric, historic, and ethnographic data from Mongolia, China, Iceland, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States, The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness offers a first step toward examining class as a central issue within anthropology. Contributors to this volume use the methods of historical materialism, cultural ecology, and political ecology to understand the realities of class and how they evolve. Five central ideas unify the collection: the objective basis for class in different social orders; people's understanding of class in relation to race and gender; the relation of ideologies of class to realities of class; the U.S. managerial middle-class denial of class and emphasis on meritocracy in relation to increasing economic insecurity; and personal responses to economic insecurity and their political implications. Anthropologists who want to understand the nature and dynamics of culture must also understand the nature and dynamics of class. The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness addresses the role of the concept of class as an analytical construct in anthropology and how it relates to culture. Although issues of social hierarchy have been studied in anthropology, class has not often been considered as a central element. Yet a better understanding of its role in shaping culture, consciousness, and people's awareness of their social and natural world would in turn lead to better understanding of major trends in social evolution as well as contemporary society. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of anthropology, labor studies, ethnohistory, and sociology. Hannan , Daniel . 2010. The New Road to Serfdom : A Letter of Warning to America . New York: Harper. Hardin, Garret. 1968. “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Science 162: 1243–1248. Harvey, David. 2010. The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of ..." Awakened ! My book attempts to present what I believe is a serious threat to our Constitutional Republic, based on the current administrations increasing imposition of Federal regulations, policies, and programs that infringe on the basic rights of the American citizens. It is partly my personal story of growing up in this great country and making a positive contribution to society, but it is also a call for Americans to wake up to the reality of the continued overreach of the Federal Government regarding decisions that should rightfully be made by private citizens. My goal is to encourage people to become personally informed and take action to end thus trend of intrusive government and return to the principles of our founders. It is not a call for an all out revolution or engaging in violence against the government. Rather, it is a call for a constructive engagement by the folks out here in the working trenches to wake up, stand up, speak out, and then act in a civil manner to bring positive change through positive ideas that are based on the values that have been cultivated and promulgated since the founding of the country. Finally, I hope to begin to restore our country s reputation of American Exceptionalism that has been tarnished under the current administration. This is a promise I have made to myself and a legacy I want to leave my family, friends, and all people of good will. A Conservative's Perspective on '' American Expectionalism '' Rob Lee Weinhold. D'Souza, Dinesh, The Roots of Obama's Rage ... Hannan , Daniel , The New Road to Serfdom —A Letter of Warning to America ( New York: HarperCollins, 2010)." The Nexus The Nexus, so-named because of the operational intersection or Nexus of faith and culture, is an alphabetized manual of cultural artifacts of significance to Christians. In The Nexus, Jon Widener observes how Christianity has lost many battles over the years and how the evangelical community has been fraught with endemic anti-intellectualism. He sees an evangelical insularity taking the form of retreat and retrenchment from the comings and goings of the larger society. Dr. Widener proposes that modern Christian believers correct these deficits by exercising the exhortation of I Pet 3:15 (KJV) to always be prepared to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. Believers should educate themselves on culturally relevant issues where there are questions of Christian morality. This is the burden and purpose of the book. Accordingly, the standard for inclusion is straight-forward. If the topic is culturally encountered and has moral implications, then it meets the threshold standard for inclusion in the work. In The New Road to Serfdom : A Letter of Warning to America (2010), British parliamentarian Daniel Hannan warns America against going down the same road as England and the rest of Europe. He has nothing but praise for the American ..." How We Invented Freedom & Why It Matters This book tells the story of freedom and explains how it is a uniquely 'British', rather than 'Western', invention. It shows how the inhabitants of a damp island at the western tip of the Eurasian landmass stumbled upon the extraordinary idea that the state was the servant, and not the master, of the individual. This revolutionary concept created security of property and contract which, in turn, led to industrialization and modern capitalism. For the first time in the history of the species, a system grew up which, on the whole, rewarded production over predation. The system was carried across the oceans by English-speakers – sometimes colonial administrators, sometimes patriotic settlers – where in Philadelphia 1787, it was distilled into its purest and most sublime form as the US Constitution. Freedom is the key to the success of the English-speaking peoples and this book teaches us to keep fast to that legacy and, in our turn, to pass it intact to the next generation. He blogs regularly at www. hannan .co.uk and for the Daily Telegraph. Daniel is also the author of The New Road to Serfdom : A Letter of Warning to America . A Letter from the Publisher We hope you enjoyed this About the Author Reviews ..." Magical Thinking, Fantastic Film, and the Illusions of Neoliberalism \u200bThis book analyzes how contemporary popular films with fantastic themes, including Candyman, Frozen, The Cabin in the Woods, and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, cultivate neoliberal subjectivities. These films promise dramatic change, but they too often deliver more of the same. Although proponents maintain the illusion that the militant enforcement of freemarket economics will resolve racism, climate change, and imperialism, their magical thinking actually fuels the crises. Magical Thinking, Fantastic Film, and the Illusions of Neoliberalism explores the ways in which the visual economies of Hollywood fantasy compliment this particular political economy. 2003. Cultural Identity and Diaspora. In Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader, eds. Jana Evans Braziel, and Anita Mannur, 233–247. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Hannan , Daniel . 2010. The New Road to Serfdom : A Letter of Warning to America ." Freedom The invention of modern freedom—the equating of liberty with restraints on state power—was not the natural outcome of such secular Western trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the Atlantic Revolutions. We tend to think of freedom as something that is best protected by carefully circumscribing the boundaries of legitimate state activity. But who came up with this understanding of freedom, and for what purposes? In a masterful and surprising reappraisal of more than two thousand years of thinking about freedom in the West, Annelien de Dijn argues that we owe our view of freedom not to the liberty lovers of the Age of Revolution but to the enemies of democracy. The conception of freedom most prevalent today—that it depends on the limitation of state power—is a deliberate and dramatic rupture with long-established ways of thinking about liberty. For centuries people in the West identified freedom not with being left alone by the state but with the ability to exercise control over the way in which they were governed. They had what might best be described as a democratic conception of liberty. Understanding the long history of freedom underscores how recently it has come to be identified with limited government. It also reveals something crucial about the genealogy of current ways of thinking about freedom. The notion that freedom is best preserved by shrinking the sphere of government was not invented by the revolutionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who created our modern democracies—it was invented by their critics and opponents. Rather than following in the path of the American founders, today’s “big government” antagonists more closely resemble the counterrevolutionaries who tried to undo their work. Daniel Hannan , The New Road to Serfdom : A Letter of Warning to America ( New York: HarperCollins, 2010). 2. Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto ( New York: Threshold Editions, 2009), 17–18. 3." Grass Roots Would you like to do your part in saving America? Grass Roots is a no-nonsense instruction manual that explains exactly what you can do. Scott Hennen—host and founder of the innovative Common Sense Club radio program—shows how everyday Americans just like you are making a difference for our country’s future. This down-to-earth handbook gives you clear, practical, effective actions you can take to preserve the American dream for your children and grandchildren. President Ronald Reagan once said, “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” Today, most Americans struggle just to keep food on the dinner table. We are staggering under a crushing burden of big government, out-of-control spending, and towering federal debt. We have become tax slaves—and the people we sent to Washington to represent us are the very ones who sold us there. We’re angry—and rightly so. But ruling-class politicians have shrugged off our grassroots anger, calling it “Astroturf.” We’re tired of being ignored, patronized, and lied to by the very people who are supposed to be our “public servants.” Not since the original Boston Tea Party of 1773 have so many everyday Americans participated in such a significant display of righteous indignation and freedom-loving patriotism. For the first time in generations, ordinary hardworking, church-going Americans are carrying signs, gathering in large numbers, and making their voices heard. Big government, beware. A sleeping giant has awakened. Scott Hennen has drawn up a practical blueprint for change, a handbook for all of us who are ready to roll up our sleeves and do our part to restore America’s goodness—and greatness. Grass Roots is a political manifesto for every American who loves liberty and cares enough to get involved. Daniel Hannan , The New Road to Serfdom : A Letter of Warning to America ( New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 161–62. Note: Grace Custer refers to President Obama's comments on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, when he said of his poor skills ..." Was Jesus a Socialist? Economist and historian Lawrence W. Reed has been hearing people say “Jesus was a socialist” for fifty years. And it has always bothered him. Now he is doing something about it. Reed demolishes the claim that Jesus was a socialist. Jesus called on earthly governments to redistribute wealth? Or centrally plan the economy? Or even impose a welfare state? Hardly. Point by point, Reed answers the claims of socialists and progressives who try to enlist Jesus in their causes. As he reveals, nothing in the New Testament supports their contentions. Was Jesus a Socialist? could not be more timely. Socialism has made a shocking comeback in America. Poll after poll shows that young Americans have a positive image of socialism. In fact, more than half say they would rather live in a socialist country than in a capitalist one. And as socialism has come back into vogue, more and more of its advocates have tried to convince us that Jesus was a socialist. This rhetoric has had an impact. According to a 2016 poll by the Barna Group, Americans think socialism aligns better with Jesus’s teachings than capitalism does. When respondents were asked which of that year’s presidential candidates aligned closest to Jesus’s teachings, a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” came out on top. Sure enough, the same candidate earned more primary votes from under-thirty voters than did the eventual Democratic and Republican nominees combined. And in a 2019 survey, more than seventy percent of millennials said they were likely to vote for a socialist. Was Jesus a Socialist? expands on the immensely popular video of the same name that Reed recorded for Prager University in July 2019. That video has attracted more than four million views online. Ultimately, Reed shows the foolishness of trying to enlist Jesus in any political cause today. He writes: “While I don’t believe it is valid to claim that Jesus was a socialist, I also don’t think it is valid to argue that he was a capitalist. Neither was he a Republican or a Democrat. These are modern-day terms, and to apply any of them to Jesus is to limit him to but a fraction of who he was and what he taught.” Daniel Hannan is a writer and journalist. ... including the New York Times bestsellers Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World and The New Road to Serfdom : A Letter of Warning to America ." 自由：民主的盟友或敵人？思考現代社會的形成與危機 2021美國出版者協會PROSE哲學獎得主 全球學者．各大外媒一致好評 「精雕細琢引人入勝」「充滿雄心壯志」「大膽顛覆標準敘事」「迫切而深具說服力」 疫情時代政府強制戴口罩、實名制，侵犯自由的質疑聲不斷； 社會貧富差距與日俱增，追求自由似乎必然伴隨著犧牲平等？ 從希臘城邦、法國大革命到極端政治的現代。 自由與民主業已分崩離析，究竟如何解決這個困境？ 唯有追尋自由歷史的系譜，才能獲得解答！ 在當代社會，自由被視為與生俱來，不可剝奪的權利，每個人都應有不可侵犯的個人領域，行使自身的意志，不被國家政府所拘束。可是，自由的定義並非始終如一，甚至我們現在熟悉的自由，是十九、二十世紀才重新發明的產物。 從古代希臘城邦開始，自由一直都代表著人民自我治理的權利，能夠建立屬於自己的政府，換言之是一種「民主式」的自由。到了近代法國大革命、美國獨立革命的支持者，都一再強調要由人民組織政府、參與政府的決策。美國政治家派屈克・亨利就曾發表一句名言：「不自由，毋寧死」，表達支持民主自由的強烈決心。 可是，反對革命的分子卻認為，民主並沒有帶來所有人的自由，而是帶來多數人的暴政，才會造成後來法國大革命的無政府狀態、恐怖統治，因此他們提出嶄新的自由概念，認為應該限縮政府的權力，讓人們享有個人自主生活、生命財產的領域。這不僅是我們現代所熟悉的自由定義的誕生，更是自由與民主分道揚鑣的開始。 此後，「自由」成為眾人爭論不休的話題，左派、右派、民主、專制的支持者都宣稱他們是自由的捍衛者，至今都是眾人爭論不休的焦點。二十世紀初的共產主義者認為，為了獲得真正的自由，讓人民擺脫被資本家奴役的困境，必須進一步解放經濟上的不平等。但諷刺的是，這樣的理解最終卻導致法西斯主義的崛起，後來墨索里尼、希特勒納粹政權的誕生。 因此，「在一個社會中，或者是作為一個社會，人如何獲得自由？」，正是本書要解答的課題，將審視兩千多年以來，在一般所稱的西方，如何去思考與討論政治上的自由。這段故事一路上會探究諸如柏拉圖、西塞羅、馬基維利、洛克與盧梭，以及當代的弗雷德里希・海耶克、以撒・柏林及漢娜・鄂蘭等大名鼎鼎人物的思想，也觸及到那些政治思想上相對不為人知的人物，像是十九世紀編寫韋伯字典的諾亞・韋伯斯特，他就是第一個用美式英語來定義出「自由」（liberty）的人。在這段探索自由的漫長歷史中，我們尤其應該記住，對我們現代民主制度的締造者而言，自由、民主及平等之間並不存在緊張關係，始終是相互交織的。唯有釐清自由概念的演進過程，才能回到當代社會，捍衛生而為人的基本價值。 專文導讀 陳禹仲 中央研究院人文社會科學研究中心助研究員 葉 浩 國立政治大學政治學系副教授 好評推薦 朱家安 哲學作家 顏擇雅 作家 「自由的實踐不僅在於落實古典自由的人民主權，因為落實人民主權、卻未能擁有充分平等的政治，將會成為一個少數菁英擔憂資源重新分配，進而挪用現代自由概念以限縮人民主權的政治；而這也正是我們現有的政治。而正如德黛所說，也許擺脫如此困境的方式，唯有在現代政治裡，重申自由、人民主權、與平等這近乎三位一體的觀念集結。」 ──陳禹仲，中央研究院人文社會科學研究中心助研究員 「在一個少有人願意為民族的解放而犧牲，職業與愛情或許是人生最偉大的抉擇之民主時代之中，這樣一本企圖帶領人們重溫歷史更加淵遠流長的另一種自由，無疑是思想史之外更重要之意義。或許也是作者的真正書寫意圖。」 ──葉浩，國立政治大學政治學系副教授 「雄心勃勃，令人印象深刻……探討了從古代世界、革命時代到冷戰時期，自由概念的另一段歷史，描繪了當今的自由概念──如不受政府監督或壓迫的自由──偏離其更經典和由來已久的自治定義的時刻……正值自由和民主的危急存亡之秋，像這樣的書比以往更為重要，因為我們的社會正在思考過去的遺產和未來的展望。」 ──《國家》雜誌（The Nation） 「一部精雕細琢、引人入勝、與我們時代密切相關的歷史。」 ──《科克斯書評》星級評價（Kirkus, starred review） 「發人深省……有助於解釋為什麼右派和左派的支持者，都聲稱自己是自治自由（Liberty）的保護者，卻對其意義抱持著截然不同的理解……這本深入解析的思想史擁有遏止政治兩極化的潛力。」 ──《出版者週刊》（Publishers Weekly） 「這本書大膽且充滿雄心壯志，將對我們如何思考自由在西方傳統中的地位，產生巨大的影響。」 ──薩繆爾．莫恩（Samuel Moyn），《不足：不平等世界中的人類權利》（Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World）作者 「這本書既具權威，又相當精緻，是一部規模宏大的歷史。德黛成功以清晰和輕盈的筆觸，將過去的重量帶到了我們這個時代的自由及其脆弱性上。」 ──達林．麥克馬洪（Darrin M. McMahon），《神之怒：一段天才的歷史》（Divine Fury: A History of Genius） 「德黛以非凡的廣度和博學，敘述了西方關於思考自由的全史。在這個過程中，她還深刻地顛覆了標準的自由主義敘事，使我們相信，我們今天所理解的自由──即獨自做自己事情的機會──是最近才發明的。對於歷史學家、政治理論家和所有喜歡偉大思想的讀者來說，這是一本重要的著作。」 ──索菲亞．羅森費爾德（Sophia Rosenfeld），《民主與真相：一段簡明的歷史》（Democracy and Truth: A Short History） 「德黛寫了一本驚人巨著，探討自由的歷史及其多樣的意涵。這本書討論的範圍廣闊、文筆優雅、有著驚人原創的洞察力。在未來的許多年裡，我們都將持續閱讀這本書。」 ──麥克．祖克特（Michael P. Zuckert），《啟動自由主義》（Launching Liberalism） 「兩千年來，自由都被認為是民眾自治。但十九世紀的自由派和保守派，將自由重新定義為針對國家權力的個人權利保障，而民主式的平等則是對自由的威脅。這本適時的書提出了迫切且深具說服力的論述，在這個不平等與日俱增的年代，重新思考自由與民主。」 ──席普．斯圖曼（Siep Stuurman），《人文的發明：世界歷史中的平等與文化差異》（The Invention of Humanity: Equality and Cultural Difference in World History） 「本書為西方傳統中自由的定義，這個龐大而混雜的主題賦予驚人的清晰度。關於抵制民主的嶄新見解和措辭犀利的結論，讓任何對我們當前困境的源頭感興趣的人，都必須閱讀這本書。」 ──琳．杭特（Lynn Hunt），《歷史學為什麼重要？》（History: Why It Matters） 「一本精彩的書，寫得非常好、引人入勝，且令人信服。德黛提供了一個關於跨越兩千年的自由概念的全面歷史，認為像我們今天這樣將自由與有限政府連結起來，是一個非常現代的概念。」 海蓮娜．羅森布拉特（Helena Rosenblatt），《自由主義的失落歷史》（The Lost History of Liberalism） 南( Daniel Hannan )出版的《奴的路》( New Road to Serfdom ),來告美國人提「會主制的靈」,1 或者他們也可會拿《自自由暴政》(Liberty and ... 1 Daniel Hannan , The New Road to Serfdom : A Letter of Warning to America (NewYork: Harper Collins, 2010)."