Alan Gottlieb

Alan Merril Gottlieb
Born (1947-05-02) May 2, 1947
Los Angeles
Nationality American
Education

Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee


Institute on Comparative Political & Economic Systems, Georgetown University
Occupation Political Activist
Author
Spouse(s) Julianne Gottlieb

Alan Merril Gottlieb (born May 2, 1947) is an American author, conservative political activist, gun rights advocate, and businessperson. Gottlieb has published over 19 books.

Biography

He was born a first child to Seymour and Sherry Gottlieb on May 2, 1947 in Los Angeles. Gottlieb graduated from the University of Tennessee in the summer of 1971, after a five year course, with a degree in nuclear engineering. He has also attended the Institute on Comparative Political & Economic Systems at Georgetown University. "I am," he [Gottlieb] says, "the premiere anti-communist, free-enterprise, laissez-faire capitalist."

Gottlieb is a staunch defender of gun rights, and most of his 19 books expound upon the subject. Gottlieb is a businessman who owns, with his wife, several businesses whose target market is ultra-conservative groups. Gottlieb is an avid collector of old handguns and postage stamps.

Activism

Gottlieb is the Chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, a Board Member of the American Conservative Union, President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, President of the American Political Action Committee, President of NoInternetTax.org, and President of KeepAndBearArms.com.

Business

Gottlieb owns Merril Press, an "independent publisher of unusual nonfiction books by authors who know what they're writing about."[1] He is also president of four radio stations, including KITZ in Port Orchard, Washington, KGTK in Olympia, Washington, KBNP in Portland, Oregon, and KSBN in Spokane, Washington.

Gottlieb owns Merril Mail Marketing, Inc., a for-profit corporation, that is his direct response mail fund-raising business. He also controls The Service Bureau, Inc., a non-profit cooperative corporation that provides its members with services such as telephone fund-raising and accounting. The member organizations that can receive assets upon dissolution of the cooperative are the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise; Second Amendment Foundation; Right to Keep and Bear Arms Political Victory Fund; Merril Associates; and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Works

Gottlieb has published over 19 books.

Books

Books co-authored by Gottlieb

References

  1. ↑ Merril Press
  2. ↑ "Books". Merril Press. October 30, 2007. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
  3. ↑ "Books". Merril Press. August 1, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
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