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In 1943, three books appeared that changed American politics forever: Isabel Paterson's The God of the Machine, Rose Wilder Lane's The Discovery of Freedom, and Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. Together, they laid the groundwork for what became the modern libertarian movement.Even more striking were the women behind these books: Paterson, a brilliant but misanthropic journalist whose weekly column made her one of the nation's most important literary critics; Lane, a restless writer who secretly coauthored the Little House on the Prairie novels with her mother; and Rand, a philosophically inclined Russian immigrant ferociously devoted to heroic individualism. Working against the backdrop of changes in literature and politics, they joined forces to rally the nation to the principles of freedom that had come under attack at home and abroad.
About the Author
Timothy Sandefur is Vice President for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute. Before joining Goldwater, he served for 15 years as an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, where he led its Economic Liberty Project, to protect businesses and entrepreneurs against abusive government regulation. He has won important victories for free enterprise in California, Kentucky, Missouri, Oregon, and other states. His books include Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America (coauthored with Christina Sandefur, 2016) , The Right to Earn A Living: Economic Freedom And The Law (2010) , The Conscience of The Constitution (2013) , and The Permission Society (forthcoming, 2016) , as well as some 45 scholarly articles on subjects ranging from eminent domain and economic liberty to copyright, evolution and creationism, slavery and the Civil War, and the political philosophy of Shakespeare, ancient Greek drama, and Star Trek. He is a graduate of Chapman University School of Law and Hillsdale College. He is an Adjunct Scholar with the Cato Institute, and his articles have appeared in Liberty, The Claremont Review of Books, National Review, Regulation, The San Francisco Chronicle, and other places. He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs, including John Stossel, Kennedy, The Armstrong and Getty Show, and CPSAN's Book TV.
