WHO OWNS AMERICA?

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"The essays in Who Owns America? not only elaborate and clarify the critique of industrialism, corporate capitalism, and the bureaucratic state put forth in I'll Take My Stand, but also defend the widespread ownership of property as the foundation for individual liberty and the morally responsible life. Professor Shapiro's fine introduction positions the book within the political, social, and economic debates of the 1930s and demonstrates its relevance to current efforts to restore private property or find its equivalent."
— Mark Malvasi, author, The Unregenerate South: The Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson

"The republication of this volume fills a lacuna in the available literature of American political thought, and there is no longer any excuse for theorists of freedom, community, and democracy to neglect the decentralist tradition exemplified by these essays."
— First Things

"As often happens, a profound insight can fall on deaf ears but emerge triumphant decades later. The distributist insight—that human beings will flourish in a system of distributed property, decentralized power, individual liberty, and community responsibility—yet lives. A trip through Who Owns America? offers an intriguing glimpse into an earlier exposition of that theme, redolent of the pleasant scent of magnolia."
— The American Enterprise

"These compelling essays speak across the decades and challenge us to form a society fashioned by the authentic needs of the human person."
— The New Oxford Review

"A fascinating read, reminding us that the really big issues have already been raised but forgotten."
— Business Ethics

"…a classic of American social thought."
— Crisis

"…observant and insightful commentaries…"
— Wisconsin Bookwatch

"…[T]he wisdom of Who Owns America? is clearer than ever."
— Culture Wars

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