Isabel Paterson: Early Libertarian

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02/02/2010 Jeff Riggenbach

Autodidactic influential libertarian, Isabel Paterson is best known for The God of the Machine (1943). Ayn Rand contributed ideas to it but continued to learn from Paterson both politics and history. Rand rescued the book and promoted it.

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