Editing The Incredible Bread Machine

The Incredible Bread Machine is a book originally written by R.W. Grant in 1966 and revised in 1999. It concludes with a poem, also by Grant, about Tom Smith and his Incredible Bread Machine.

The poem is designed to illustrate how a wonderful invention, like a machine that can bake bread for under a penny, can run afoul of government regulation and bureaucracy.

The full version of the poem can be found on YouTube, recited by R.W. Grant.

In 1974, a group of students affiliated with World Research Inc. wrote their own book, also called the Incredible Bread Machine. The book includes an abbreviated version of the poem. Later a [[yt:ycGRERrGsMo|film based on this book]] was created.

Their version of the book is [https://mises.org/library/book/incredible-bread-machine available as a PDF at the Mises Institute].

Reagan's several Radio Commentaries are based on reading this ''second'' book, not the original. Reagan would read the poem 3 separate times on the air and talk about it a couple more.<BR />
Poem: [[75-02-B5]], [[75-20-B4]], [[77-23-B5]]<BR />
Other mentions: [[76-03-B2]], [[76-18-A6]]

This Wiki's administrator, however, purchased a copy of the 1999 edition and was so taken by the topics discussed, he researched, wrote, and recorded 5 episodes of a COVID era podcast about it.
[[IBM1Pod|Part 1: The Laissez Faire Capitalism That Never Was]]<BR />
[[IBM2Pod|Part 2: The Three Principles of Capitalism and the Free Society]]<BR />
[[IBM3Pod|Part 3: The Principles Ignored—How Political Force Disrupts Our Lives]]<BR />
[[IBM4Pod|Part 4: The Principles Applied—Alternatives to Political Force]]<BR />
[[IBM5Pod|Part 5: What Now?]]<BR />

== Links ==
[[wikipedia:The_Incredible_Bread_Machine|The Incredible Bread Machine]]<BR />
[http://www.quandaryhouse.com/ Quandry House], publishers of the R.W. Grant books<BR />
[https://x.com/IncBreadMachine X/Twitter account associated with The Incredible Bread Machine]