Regular readers know how nuts I am for the novels of Garet Garrett. I can’t even chose among them, they are all so great. To my mind they should be NYT bestsellers. They constitute a major discovery in a hugely important genre: capitalist fiction. I say capitalist but they are not self-consciously so. They are just good stories that put a love of commercial life at the very core of the plot. So they make the reader come to appreciate the great contribution that enterprise makes to civilization.
Anyway, I wanted to test my view that anyone would love these, so personally purchased these books for three people: my mother, a musician friend in New York, and a friend of a friend who is 90 years old and living on the other coast. The idea was to get a cross section.
I’m pleased to report that all three are just crazy for these books. Each finished one and read the next week. My friend in New York had just finished a Steinbeck book and preferred the Garrett! So with this in mind, I recommend them all anew. You will be thrilled.
