• "Well written, well researched, and the thesis put forth is well argued.... Woods has opened up an area of historical analysis that should invite further study."
    -Journal of American History

  • "During these times that challenge our freedoms there is no one more qualified to make U.S. history relevant to the fight against big government than Thomas Woods."
    -Barry Goldwater Jr.
    Former Member of Congress

  • "I strongly recommend Woods's work."
    -The Honorable Ron Paul,
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • "Written with great clarity and fluency, making the complex philosophical and theological concepts approachable."
    -Journal of American Studies

  • "A must-read."
    -Barron's

  • "An excellent reading source for anyone interested in financial markets, and much more so for anyone interested in learning about capitalism without all the misinterpretations being thrown about in the financial media."
    -Asia Times

  • "Provocative, well-written, and deserves to be read."
    -Catholic Historical Review

  • "An engaging and important contribution to scholarship on the history of American Catholicism."
    -Journal of the Historical Society

  • "Woods and [co-author Kevin] Gutzman appeal to both left and right in this constitutionalist jeremiad…. The authors' exegeses of the Constitution and court decisions, heavy on original intent arguments, are lucid and telling."
    -Publishers Weekly

  • "A marvelous read. Every chapter taught me something new and unexpected."
    -Tom Bethell, senior editor,
    The American Spectator

  • "The hottest book today is Meltdown, by my friend Tom Woods."
    -Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst,
    FOX News Channel

  • "Should be required reading."
    -Economic Affairs (London)

  • "Woods, one of the best classical liberal [libertarian] scholars of his generation, has once more placed us in his debt with this lucid and tightly argued book."
    -David Gordon, The Mises Review

  • "Tom Woods is one of my dearest allies in the struggle against wrong-headed and dangerous economic policy."
    -Peter Schiff

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Meltdown has been translated into Japanese, Czech, Korean, and Chinese.

“A must-read. Writing with remarkable clarity and occasional mordant humor, Thomas Woods makes a compelling argument for a radical turn to the free market as the only way to prevent meltdowns from recurring.”
-Barron’s

“Very convincing.” -Claremont Review of Books

“An excellent reading source for anyone interested in financial markets, and much more so for anyone interested in learning about capitalism without all the misinterpretations being thrown about in the financial media.” -Asia Times

From the foreword by Ron Paul:

“We can probably expect an avalanche of books in the coming months that purport to tell us what happened to the economy and what we should do about it.They’ll be dead wrong, and most of the advice they provide will be dreadful.You can count on that.

“That’s why Meltdown is different. This book actually gets things right.  It correctly identifies our problems, their causes, and what we should do about them.  It treats the architects of this debacle not with the undeserved reverence they receive in Washington and on television, but with the critical eye that is so conspicuously missing from our supposedly independent thinkers in academia and the media.  Tom Woods reserves his admiration for those few who, unlike the quacks who would instruct us now, actually saw the crisis coming, have a theory to explain it, and can show us the way out.

“In a short span, Tom Woods introduces the layman to a range of subjects that have been excluded from our national discussion for much too long.  Topics our opinion leaders thought they’d buried forever, or never heard of in the first place, are suddenly back, and not a moment too soon.  This book is an indispensable conduit of these critical ideas….

“Ideas still matter, and sound economic education has rarely been as urgently necessary as it is today.  There is no better book to read on the present crisis than this one, and that is why I am delighted to endorse and introduce it.”

Related links:

Foreword by Ron Paul
Austrian Economics Reading List (as promised in the appendix)
Review by Economic Policy Journal
Review by Barron’s
Review by the Washington Times
Review by Prof. Murray Sabrin
Review by CBS News.com
Feature by MarketWatch
Feature by United Press International (UPI)
Review by the Orange County Register
“Murray Rothbard Would Have Been Proud”
Interview with Financial Sense Newshour (mp3)
Podcast with Taki’s Magazine
Funny (and brief) video interview with Young Americans for Liberty

  • AChnAdmirer

    The Chinese translation of this brilliant book is a disaster. I just read it and it is very wrong from the title to very last sentence.