Joan Kennedy Taylor (1926—2005)

12/28/2010 Jeff Riggenbach

Joan Kennedy Taylor first became involved in the libertarian movement in the early 1960s, when she was a student at the Nathaniel Branden Institute in New York City. As a student of Objectivism, she espoused the political views of Ayn Rand.

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