DIGG THIS The Ludwig von Mises Institute has reprinted the four novels written by Garet Garrett (1878–1954), one of America’s leading financial journalists and a libertarian. Garrett, who for unknown reasons had renamed himself so that both parts sounded alike, was a writer of distinctive ideas and a forcefully distinctive style. I have had the pleasure of editing two volumes of his essays: Salvos Against the New Deal (Caxton, 2002), and Defend America First (2003). Caxton will bring out a third volume, Insatiable Government, later this year. But none of his novels had been reprinted since the 1920s, and they … Continue reading The Capitalist Fiction of Garet Garrett