Biographies

On Freedom and Free Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises

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02/20/1957 • Mary Sennholz

This was the first Festschrift (1956) in Mises’s honor, and the essays it contains have proven fruitful sources for decades. This reprint features a new introduction. Preeminently, it contains Rothbard’s reconstruction of utility and welfare...

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A Tribute to Ludwig von Mises

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03/07/1956 • Friedrich A. Hayek

A tribute given by F.A. Hayek at a party in honor of Mises. New York, March 7, 1956

Give Me Liberty

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06/07/1954 • Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane in her youth supported the Russian Revolution, but a trip to Russia quickly dispelled her illusions. She realized that the mass politics of socialism necessarily suppressed individual freedom. America was founded on a different...

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One Is a Crowd

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06/15/1952 • Frank Chodorov

This is a treasure: One Is a Crowd. It collects Frank Chodorov’s most profound essays on the topic of individualism, many of which have otherwise been unjustly lost to history. The reader will be riveted by his biographical essay on the meaning...

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The Roosevelt Myth

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08/15/1948 • John T. Flynn

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the most sainted president of the 20th century. You have to look far and wide to discover the truth about his character and policies. But as John T. Flynn noted in this landmark 1948 volume, FDR actually prolonged the...

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The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume 1

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05/04/1945 • Thomas Paine

The writings of Thomas Paine helped shape the American nation and left their imprint on democratic thought all over the world. This two-volume set represents an attempt to make these writings available to both the general reader and the student...

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The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume 2

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05/03/1945 • Thomas Paine

The writings of Thomas Paine helped shape the American nation and left their imprint on democratic thought all over the world. This two-volume set represents an attempt to make these writings available to both the general reader and the student...

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Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

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06/15/1943 • Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of...

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Men of Wealth: The Story of Twelve Significant Fortunes from the Renaissance to the Present Day

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02/15/1941 • John T. Flynn

This book reminds us what a remarkable writer and journalist John T. Flynn truly was. It is a first-class business history, by any standard. It is the story of great fortunes made by the most notable men of wealth in history: Jacob Fugger, John...

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Country Squire in the White House

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06/15/1940 • John T. Flynn

John T. Flynn was an early New Dealer who quickly saw what happens when power is concentrated in the executive state. He became a passionate opponent of FDR and his policies. This 1940 book is his analysis of the American presidency and the...

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