The Freedom Manifesto out today in US
17 December 2007
Tom Hodgkinson’s How To Be Free is published today in the States, under the title The Freedom Manifesto: How to Free Yourself from Anxiety, Fear, Mortgages, Money, Guilt, Debt, Government, Boredom, Supermarkets, Bills, Melancholy, Pain, Depression, Work, and Waste (yes, they do like these long titles, don’t they).
Following a glowing review in Slate, the book is climbing up the charts and we hope to rekindle the great American tradition of freedom, reclaim it from the neocons, and give it back to the Whitmans, the Kerouacs and the Keseys of this world. Down with Facebook! Up with hoeing the cabbages!
"I do nothing and then I do something. But it's taken years of investigating idleness in all its forms to be able to achieve this. My discipline is borne out of concerted study of idleness."