Jonathan Leaf

This book does have some useful information, but it was written by a libertarian, so it also has the obligatory chapter in which the author reminds you that he's a kook. In this case, it's the chapter about how horrible and wrong the space program was. What did he want to do with the money instead, spend it on the social programs he spends much of the book despising?

He also pretends that hippie culture never happened, on the grounds that people in the '60s dressed and lived in manners roughly comparable to those of the '50s. It would've been more honest to say that "the Sixties" happened in the '70s instead... (And, from what I know of the decade, I get the impression that its mental culture might've been more Seventies-ish than its physical culture was. But I'm not an expert; I certainly can't say for sure.)… (mais)