Once upon a time in the 1970's there was a very funny political book aimed at people who believed that America was still the land of the free. This was before P.J. O'Rourke became a publishing phenomenon. The book was "It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand" by Jerome Tuccille and it was a hoot. 
Now, only thirty years later, the long, long awaited sequel is finally available. And in the age of Clinton, we need this book! 
A lot has happened since Tuccille left us in the tender clutches of Richard Nixon. Like, we won the Cold War, man! Enjoy the journey as the most iconoclastic libertarian humorist takes us through those missing years. 
The high point is the Reagan era, the last best chance to save the free market from the top down. What went wrong is grist for Tuccille's mill. His own brush running for office adds immeasurably to his insights about those in high office. But would this book be the same if Tuccille had actually become Governor of New York on the Libertarian ticket? 
A prospect just as likely as the ghostly visitation from Ayn Rand that begins the book. 
Anyone who thinks socialism is a scam and that welfare liberals are funny is going to love this book. 
Anyone interested in gonzo politics of the Hunter S. Thompson school will enjoy this book. 
Anyone who thinks that freedom is a buzzword of the crazed militia right will hate this book. 
Plus this is the only account of how libertarians used a naked lady on a horse to get votes! What more do you want?

It Still Begins With Ayn Rand

Politics & Social Sciences

Tuccille, Jerome

Politics & Government

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A dying assassin is given one last assignment and one last chance for survival. The job: to find God Almighty and destroy Him. The payment: eternal life. With the aid of a beautiful lady gambler, an ancient Hollywood witch, and a telepathic smartass of a girl, Dell Ammo breaches the gates of Heaven and Hell to pull the Cosmic Trigger.

The Jehovah Contract

Literature & Fiction

Koman, Victor

Genre Fiction

Earth was destroyed in 2023 and only Lunar colonists survived. Nine hundred years later, in a star-spanning "nation" without conscription or taxation, "The Parkinson" is transporting famous entertainer Chelsie Bradford on a tour of the galaxy to raise funds for a very unpopular interstellar war. Captain Nathaniel Blackburn of Coordinated Arm Intelligence must find out who's killing rock musicians raising money for the War Against the Clusterian Powers. 
Then the deaths begin. 
Blackburn knows the killer will strike again. But he doesn't know why. Are the murders acts of sabotage--or acts of twisted love? Political passion, or personal fury directed at the beautiful, enigmatic Chelsie? . . . the woman who is--the WarDove!

The Wardove

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Smith, L. Neil

Science Fiction

Working in secrecy at the Anger Institute, Cap and his six fellow adventurers monitor the planet watching for the next madman bent on world conquest. This time, a crazed scientist unleashes the ultimate terror: billions of microscopic robots programmed for destruction. As Captain Richard Anger races to find a cure for the silver-liquid death, he pilots his sea-going superjet to a mysterious island of strange metallic mountains and steel-clad shores. There he and his hard-fighting companions--Rock, Leila, Tex, and Sun Ra--must use their wits and their weapons of super-science to stop the insane genius Dandridge before he tears the earth apart.

Captain Anger Adventure #1: The Microbotic Menace (Captain Anger)

Okay, Fine

Kirts, D.K.

Orion and Maya are teenagers on a distant planet called Cyberion. What is the meaning of the artifacts they find buried in a secret cave? Join them as they unravel a mystery that will change everything they thought they knew about themselves.

The Chosen Ones

Richer, Julie

Teen & Young Adult

First published in the 1960s, Spinrad was one of the first writers to perceive the totalitarian implications of the cradle-to-grave welfare state. But at the same time he was too organically a radical ever to be confused with a conservative. Result: "Agent of Chaos!" 
Boris Johnson thinks he wants democracy. But in the course of his adventures he discovers that democracy to him means freedom. It's a banned concept from the Millennium of Religion. Like God. 
He finds himself dealing with a byzantine political situation worthy of anything from the banned past. The dictatorship is the Hegemony. Opposition is provided by the aptly named agents of C.H.A.O.S. Meanwhile, the Brotherhood of Assassins plays a game that no one can fathom. Whose side are they on? Whose fool are you? 
Spinrad explores his philosophical theme in a manner all too rare in contemporary science fiction. The problem is that Order will always try to eliminate any random factors. By its very nature, it encourages opposition and that feeds the forces of chaos. But chaos has built in problems as well. Its victories cannot help but feed the forces of reaction, of order. The heroes in this novel ultimately opt for personal freedom. The villains try to establish a dictatorship over the very nature of reality itself. 
And then Spinrad throws in the discovery of aliens. A starship sets forth to meet them, the Prometheus. The Hegemony doesn't like that.

Agent of Chaos

Norman Spinrad

Before Bill had Monica problems in the White House, Paul was having Monica problems in the corporate suite. "Wall Street Blues" takes the reader on the financial rollercoaster of the eighties and--surprise!--it turns out there's little difference between the eighties' lust for money and sex on Wall Street and the nineties' lust for power and sex in D.C. "Wall Street Blues" is a brilliant novel about the temptation to push morality to its limits. The narrator crosses the line between legal and criminal behavior. Then he crosses another line and succombs to his sexy young secretary, Monica. Once he does that, he comes very close to destroying both his professional career and personal life. Can a man enmeshed in corruption and scandal salvage the remnants of his career and his marriage? In "Wall Street Blues," anyway, the ending will surprise you.

Wall Street Blues

Dominick's Van Gogh begins where Wall Street Blues leaves off. Author Jerome Tuccille gave us a behind-the-scenes look at Wall Street wheeling and dealing in his earlier novel, and his latest Work of fiction offers an insider's view of mob influence in the art world.Readers who enjoyed The Godfather and The Pope of Greenwich Village are sure to find much to hold their interest in Dominick's Vatz Gogh. The novel opens with the theft of seven priceless paintings from a Madison Avenue art gallery in New York City, and ends with a high-speed chase along the coast of Rhode Island. Along the way we are introduced to a proverbial rogues' gallery of unsavory characters -- mobsters, art dealers, crooked insurance agents, seductive nurses, and Dominick. It is up to Dominick's son Paul to unravel, the mystery as his father lies comatose in intensive care while a fortune in stolen paintings -- including a Van Gogh -- are hidden in the cellar of his apartment building in the Bronx.

Dominick's Van Gogh

Contemporary

Solomon's Knife

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