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Bruce Ramsey
Bruce Ramsey’s Books
About Bruce
How I Write
‘Seattle in the Great Depression’
‘The Panic of 1893: The Untold Story of Washington State’s First Depression’
Video: About ‘The Panic of 1893’
Reviews of ‘The Panic of 1893’
‘Unsanctioned Voice: Garet Garrett’
Author Events
Columns
The American Difference (1995)
Mike the Mover (1997-98)
Diana Spencer (1997)
Save the Fish (1999)
The WTO Party (1999)
Games With Words (2000)
A Lord’s English (2003)
No Parking at Rick’s (2003)
A View to the Canal (2004)
One Percent for Art (2004)
The Value of School (2004)
Iraq, the Movie (2006)
Why Tourists Love Rail (2006)
The Muhammad Cartoons (2006)
Scooter Libby (2007)
Food Deserts (2007)
The Litmus Test (2007)
Free Breakfast (2007)
An Atheist’s Christmas (2008)
Now the Greens Want Your Cat (2009)
Wasted Labor (2009)
Defending Clint Didier (2010)
Life Overseas (2012)
Those Who Don’t Vote (2012)
History
Jack Metcalf, Greenbacker (1987)
American Reds (1997-2023)
The Fight Over Scrap Steel to Japan (1998)
Not Pearl Harbor (2001)
How the Swiss Survived (2001)
‘Seize All West Coast Japs’ (2002)
Defending Henry Ford (2003)
FDR and the Japanese Internment (2003)
Too Much WWII (2005)
The Evergreen Nanny (2006)
The Nazi Economy (2007)
Early Days at Morton (2010)
Our Famous Homeless Camp (2010)
Why We’re Rich (2010-16)
A More Glorious Fourth (2012)
Back to the 1890s (2016)
What Caused the Depression? (2019)
How Seattle Lost Its Streetcars (2023)
The Hoquiam Banker (2023)
Libertarian
Gold Bugs (1977)
Disco Bay (1992)
Merwin-Webster (1999)
We Americans (1999)
China Dialogue (1999)
The Racial Tiebreaker (2003, 2007)
Theroux’s Africa (2004)
The Theory (2004)
Legalizing Drugs (2006)
Our Allies, the Conservatives (2006)
Those Freewheeling Libertarians (2007)
Greenspan (2007)
Liberty Dollar (2008)
Meltdown (2008-2010)
Off the Grid (2010)
The Libertarian Peak (2018)
Snowpiercer (2019)
On “Systemic Racism” (2020)
Jokers to the Right of Me (2020)
And Clowns to the Left (2020)
Looking Back on the Plague Year (2021)
Not Yet ‘the Soviet of Washington’ (2023)
The Fremont Lenin (2023)
Memories
A Scare in Myrtle Creek (1975)
Eclipse at Stonehenge (1979)
Bud and Hoppe (1979)
A Hong Kong Baby (1991)
The Rickshaw Man (1991)
The Mulu Caves (1992)
An Editor in Asia (1994)
Elliot Marple (1999)
Newspaper Strike (2001)
Downtown (2008)
R.W. Bradford, in Memoriam (2008)
Death of the P-I (2009)
Road Trip (2010)
Hong Kong (1993, 2023)
Bert Sacks, in Memoriam (2025)
Bruce Ramsey’s Books
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