Garet Garrett was a financial and political journalist of the early 20th century. During World War I he was on the editorial board of the New York Times and a confidant of Bernard Baruch, Woodrow Wilson’s economic czar. Later, Garrett was a confident of Herbert Hoover. For 20 years, Garrett was a staff writer for the Saturday Evening Post, where he led two crusades — against the New Deal and against American involvement in World War II. He lost both of them, but left behind a trail of colorful argument. H.L. Mencken, that era’s master of style, credited Garrett with being the one writer on economics who did not “make an autopsy of it.”
Seattle writer Bruce Ramsey had a 37-year career in newspapers and magazines as a business reporter, editor and columnist in Seattle and Hong Kong. He edited three collections of Garrett’s journalism published the Caxton Press: Salvos Against the New Deal: Selections from the Saturday Evening Post 1933-1940 (2002), Defend America First: The Antiwar Editorials of the Saturday Evening Post 1939-1942 (2003) and Insatiable Government: Essays by Garet Garrett (2008). He also annotated Ex America, The 50th Anniversary of The People’s Pottage (Caxton, 2004).
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