When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country by G. Gordon Liddy Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 0895261758 Hardcover - (October 2002) So much has changed since G. Gordon Liddy was a kid - and not for the better. In the latest book from the smash-hit radio host, When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country, he surveys the damage: restrictive gun control laws, bewilderingly complicated and limiting environmental regulations, politically correct strangleholds on free speech and free thought, and even encroachments on our property rights and due process of law. Worst of all, Liddy points out how few Americans realize just how severely the federal government has restricted freedoms that our parents and grandparents took for granted - and how all too many citizens have forgotten, or have never learned, what made America extraordinary in the first place. This book is his wake-up call to those Americans, beginning with Liddy's rough-and-ready definition of liberty and an explanation of how the Constitution is actually designed to prevent encroachments upon the rights of the individual. Telling numerous stories from his colorful career as an FBI agent, director of the Watergate burglary, and intrepid adventurer, Liddy examines the erosion of our freedom to own guns and other threats to our continued liberty: the decline in the quality of American education, the relentless liberal attacks on the military, and the damage done by the Left's idolatry of the environment. He brings his forthright common sense to the gender gap, combating feminist and politically correct nonsense with solid truth about men and women. In a revealing appendix, he even sheds new light on the Watergate scandal, tackling head-on fellow Watergate conspirator John Dean's highly suspect reconstruction of events. EXCERPT From When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country “I am a member of the last generation to remember what this country was like when it was free. When I was a kid, my buddies and I could walk down the street carrying a rifle, a handgun, or a shotgun that our dad or uncle had bought for us at the local hardware store, or through the mail (the way Bat Masterson bought his Colt revolvers). In the fall, the air would be redolent with the delicious aroma of leaves burning in the gutter. The farmer might be filling in a swamp on his land to make it productive. A man with a home on a riverbank might be cutting down a tree on his property because it blocked his view. “People were free to speak their minds, even if what they had to say was contemptible; people who didn’t like it were free to say so in no uncertain terms-anywhere, particularly in that bastion of ideas, the university. Property owners felt secure in the knowledge that their possessions could not be taken from them, and at the very least that they would be afforded due process of law. “These freedoms and more are gone now….” Price: $19.57 - Click here to order: