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Author: Rose Wilder Lane
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing (September 10, 2010)
Synopsis:
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original, published in 1936 as an article for the Saturday Evening Post under the title “Credo,” then reprinted as a pamphlet with the new title Give Me Liberty. Rose highlights her disillusionment with socialism and advocates for individualism as the only way to ensure freedom and oppose oppression. Due to its age, the book may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because this work is culturally important, Kessinger Publishing has made it available in order to protect, preserve, and promote the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
About the Author: Rose Wilder Lane
Rose Wilder Lane (1886-1968), was a prolific fiction writer, biographer and political theorist, as well as the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House series of children’s books. Lane’s skillful editing and publishing connections assisted her mother in making the transition from rural Ozark journalist to world-renowned children’s author. Lane had left her parent’s impoverished Missouri farm at the age of 17 and soon began to make her mark on the world. After a stint as a Western Union telegrapher, she sold real estate in California and later began a successful career as a reporter for the San Francisco Bulletin. Her 1918 divorce from Gillette Lane, after several years of separation, officially ended a relationship that had never recovered from the death of an infant son around 1910. She never remarried. After her divorce, Lane continued to carve out a successful career as a writer of novels, short stories, biographies and tales of her extensive world travels. Her work as a war correspondent dated from post-WWI Europe to a tour of Vietnam in 1965 (when she was nearly 80 years old). She was a well-known literary figure of her day. Later in life, Lane’s writing focused on her increasing political conservatism, her distaste of Communism, Socialism and any other form of government that denied the freedom of the individual. She is widely regarded as one of the leading figures behind what has grown into the American Libertarian Party. Among her many works are Free Land, Young Pioneers, and Diverging Roads.
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