Comments on: Old Book Recommendation

By: Mike N

Mike N — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:15:00 +0000

Thanks all of you. I will check out those links.

By: salt1907

salt1907 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:59:49 +0000

Thanks for the link. In my Garet Garrett blog, I discuss The Driver and its relation to Ayn Rand as well as similarities between Rand's writing and other novels of that era. The Driver also provides great background on the Panic of 1893 and lessons for the current crisis.

By: Bill Brown

Bill Brown — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:20:37 +0000

Also, I just discovered that the Mises Institute has The Driver in audiobook form.

By: Neil Parille

Neil Parille — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:00:03 +0000

I know the claim concerning The Driver began with (I think) Justin Raimondo in an article in Chronicles years ago. I think he elaborated on it in his book Reclaiming the Right.

By: Bill Brown

Bill Brown — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:56:24 +0000

Google Books has full scans available of The Driver and The Blue Wound.

By: madmax

madmax — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:30:35 +0000

There are those that say that Ayn Rand borrowed from ‘The Driver’. The lead character in ‘The Driver’ is named Henry Gault which furthers such speculation. There are also those that say that she copied Yevgeny Zamyatin’s 1920 novel We when she wrote Anthem. Does anyone know the history behind this?

By: doug reich

doug reich — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:35:40 +0000

I can recommend his book, The Driver,whose hero is a wall street speculator ….gasp

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:55:45 +0000

I’ve read several of Garrett’s books, all of them excellent. He was an outstanding critic of the New Deal, writing for The Saturday Evening Post. He is definitely a wrtier worth reading.