Sic Itur Ad Astra: The Theory of Volition

by Andrew J. Galambos

As Nazi Germany brought horrifying war to Europe, a teenaged Andrew Galambos reacted with singular sensitivity, particularly to the atrocities, murders and other crimes commited against the Jews, some of whom were relatives in his native Hungary. On 1942 December 7, the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted. There in Europe, he saw the bloody rubble of what was once a great continent. There too, he learned of the deaths of his aunts, uncles and cousins in what would soon be named The Holocaust. There he resolved, "Never again!" As he said, "Either the Hitlers have to go, or civilization will surely go." Returning to New York City, he completed his education in physics and mathematics, and secured positions in academia, teaching those subjects at university level, and in industry, making major contributions to the rocket industry. Frustrated by the incompetence and injustice he saw everywhere he turned, and ever mindful of the conflagration the world had just endured, he began to construct a solution. In 1961, he founded The Free Enterprise Institute, his private, profit-seeking school through which he began to lecture. In over 100 courses, he described and designed a new world, one in which justice, freedom and prosperity will triumph. This book, Sic Itur ad Astra is the introduction to his theories, the blueprint to a stabilized durable civilization. It is the first step.

942 pages, Paperback

Published April 17, 1999

Reviews

[M C · Rating 1 out of 5]

Visit www.spacelandpublications.com to see the real version.

Unfortunately, this unauthorized version is work of an incompetent "editor" and suffers with (literally) thousands of mistakes!

The "editor" of this version got a hold of an earlier, unfinished, manuscript of the Literary Executor and merely scanned in the text, dressed it up with some different punctuation - and voilà! - presented the work as being his own. To make matters worse, this "editor" never bothered to proofread the text after he had scanned it in, leaving behind uncountable inconsistencies and errors.

The quality of the book is also a disgrace. Pages are out of order, the binding falls apart; in the hardback version several pages are not even bound into the book! Many of the graphs that are used are missing portions of text and/or algebraic equations, leaving the reader bewildered as to what Professor Galambos is even talking about.

This debacle is NOT a true representation of Professor Galambos' work.

You can see the real version at: spacelandpublications.com.

[Pete Caneer · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book purports to be the collected and edited notes of Andrew Galambos, edited by Peter Sisco (who was not selected by Galambos for this task). The concepts of Galambos are unique and not in the same league with others (but lessers) like Rand, Paine, Henry George or even Rothbard.

While a proper version of this book in its entirety does exist, and was accomplished by Galambos's hand picked Literary Executor,. this edition is not only a shoddy production replete with many errors, it's only half done and doesn't even include the more advanced ideas. Galambos preferred it all be published together, but the TTEEs of his estate have thwarted that and deprived all of the students who purchased it of their due. You may enjoy reading the book, but know that it is not what Galambos intended. It's not the real thing and, again, is missing all of the advanced concepts.