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Adam Smith & me By PJ O'Rourke ; The original Republican Party Reptile is back. P J O'Rourke's sharp, stylish commentary on Adam Smith, champion of the free market, is already an American bestseller. As it hits the shelves in Britain, John

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20070725
Author:John Walsh

Of P J O'Rourke's many achievements - editing National Lampoon, becoming foreign editor of Rolling Stone, visiting the trouble spots of the world for his book Holidays in Hell, defending US imperialism in Give War a Chance - none has been more startling than his taking An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations to the top of the bestseller list.

First published in 1776, Adam Smith's dry-as-dust 900-page study of economics and free thinking was a masterpiece of the Enlightenment - and had lain mostly unread by all except academics for 230 years. But in January of this ...

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