Liberty Maven

The Washington Post is raising some questions in an article today about whether Ron Paul actually wrote “The Revolution: A Manifesto”, his New York Times best selling book that outlines his political philosophy. They suggest that Thomas Woods may be the main author.

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 1 — Former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has boasted that he wrote a book slamming the Iraq war and challenging the nation’s economic system to continue a grass-roots movement that grew out of his quixotic campaign. The best-selling “The Revolution: A Manifesto” has become the centerpiece of a counterconvention by Paul that he has predicted will attract thousands of supporters to the Twin Cities.

But although the congressman from Texas has repeatedly called the book his own work, it was largely written by an unacknowledged ghostwriter, and it is unclear how much Paul contributed to the final product.

Late last year, Tom Woods, a longtime Paul supporter and libertarian scholar who will be speaking at the counterconvention, sent out copies of the manuscript and indicated that he had written the manifesto on Paul’s behalf, according to copies of a letter from Woods and an original manuscript obtained by The Washington Post.

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