Why Gold

Gold is good! Gold is freedom for the individual! Gold and Capitalism march hand-in-hand! And the Gold Standard provides the best of all worlds . . . free of inflation, deflation and monetary chaos!

Why Gold is a refreshing book. It is also the best publication for neophytes in monetary economics on American bookshelves. It should be in every American home.

Part I of this 148-page neo-classic is titled "Man's Rights and Gold." Part II is titled "The Gold Standard." Several of the chapters are worth the cost of the book.

Authoress Leslie Snyder has done a credible job of research, going far back into antiquity for source material; and she quotes from most of the modern goldphobes, too.

Woven through the book is Ms. Snyder's conviction that gold provides freedom . . . for the individual and for nations. > "In the eternal battle for individual and economic survival, in the name of justice and freedom for all Americans, there is only one weapon with which to fight the onslaught of socialism. This is the weapon that all socialists fear and is the first one they denounce. It is the last bastion of liberty and its final defense. That weapon is the Gold Standard!"

Leslie Snyder is an unlikely authority on the economics of gold. In the first place, not many readers expect a woman to achieve such competence in economics; in the second, Leslie Snyder is a young woman. And who among us expects youth to be expert in the monetary field?

But this book should straighten out many misconceptions, not the least of which is that a young woman cannot write a classic textbook on monetary economics. Leslie Snyder is well grounded in economics and in the efficacy of gold. Her book is a gem.

Reviewed by Oakley R. Bramble / Economics (148 Pages) / BFL Price $6