My father was executed by firing squad in 1961 for his efforts to bring freedom back to Cuba, away from communist tyranny. Linden Blue was in prison with him and has never forgotten. He is telling part the experience he shared with my father and relating it to the present-day disaster of socialist authoritarian governments throughout history. Over half a Century has passed, my father did not die in vain believing that Freedom was worthy of the ultimate sacrifice.

Losing Freedom nails one of the major problems this country faces. Linden Blue takes his personal experience and those of his co-prisoners just prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion and shows how policy failures and missed opportunities throughout history have stifled freedom. As a senior executive of a leading technology company he suggests how and why the future can be much better.

No one has contributed more to the nation's security, with less desire for notoriety, than Linden Blue. Now he brings his technological sophistication to bear on America's current collectivist, statist temptations. This is a clarion call for fidelity to the rights-based individualism, and the spontaneous order of a market society, that have made America preeminent.

Linden Blue is one of America's most amazing and important entrepreneurs. In Losing Freedom he skillfully interweaves the riveting story of his capture and imprisonment in Castro's Cuba in 1961, with a discussion of the threats that human freedom faces today and in the future. The result is a powerful document that is well worth reading, especially by young people, and which will provoke debate for a long time to come.

America's governmental system as framed by our founders drew on customs and practices from the classical world. The framers were inspired by perceived Greek and Roman political successes, along with Enlightenment ideas and English common law, and then they incorporated all of these beliefs into our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Their first principles continue to guide Americans in addressing the many problems of ensuring prosperity and peace in a rapidly changing world-even as classical freedom remains our most cherished and greatest asset. Linden Blue's engaging Losing Freedom will inspire young people both to understand and to cherish our most exceptional founding and its origins-a much needed reminder of what we must preserve in an age of increasing amnesia about who we were and must continue to be.

Linden Blue is a highly regarded leader in aerospace technology and business development Losing Freedom is full of insights and is a cautionary tale about public policy that can spell the difference between peace and conflict, prosperity and privation.

A deeply personal account, from a world-class entrepreneur, of the miracle that is modern prosperity and civil peace. As Linden Blue explains, that miracle rests on the foundations of the rule of law and commerce built by the west.