My 2004 anthology, Political Class Dismissed, is back in print, via the miracle of on-demand printing. The truth is, I was experimenting with the technology to make sure I could get my next book out fast. Time waits for no man. Anyway, this is yet another example of the power of the digital revolution. Last time, whenever I started selling books, Amazon would run out and of course, people don’t buy books that are out of stock. Amazon would then, inexplicably, ask for five more books. I then had to mail them out and they got online ten days later. Yikes.
All that is history. With an on-demand book, there is no stock and you are never out of stock. Mind-boggling!
As for PCD, what can I say? It predicted the Iraq Civil War for one thing. That aside, the main value of the book is this: for example, when I talk about political machines and about the problems with government courts, it’s a view from the trenches, from one who practiced law in them for 20 years (now 25); from one who was fighting the machine five years before I discovered libertarianism.
Most of all, PCD taught me lots of hard knock lessons that are shaping my second book.
3:35 pm on September 26, 2009
