I just read this in Bruce Ramsey’s wonderful biography of Garet Garrett, Unsanctioned Voice. It turns out that a young Henry Hazlitt, writing for the New York Sun in 1927, actually reviewed Garrett’s last novel Harangue, a story about the socialist takeover of a state that ended in chaos and poverty. Hazlitt said that it is “an economic treatise disguised as a work of fiction.” (It ran in the February 26, 1927, issue, if anyone can get the full version). So it occurs to me that Harangue might have been a model for Hazlitt’s own novel Time Will Run Back. It’s all rather seamless in a lovely way.
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Garrett and Hazlitt, Long Before Mises
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I agree, Hazlitt and Garrett are seamless in style and substance. I guess great minds think alike. I very much enjoyed the reading of “The Driver” by Jeff Riggenbach and this motivated me to buy several more books by Garrett. I am now reading “the Bubble that Broke the World”, a series of essays from the Sat. Evening Post of the day. It is remarkable how closely the events of the day resemble what is going on today. Very scary, considering how the Great Depression followed.
Jeffrey,
Will “Unsanctioned Voice” be available for free download through the Mises Institute website?
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