Culture and Liberty Writings of Isabel Paterson [Paperback]

Isabel Paterson is widely recognized as an advocate of radical individualism and a prophet of the libertarian movement. She influenced a wide variety of libertarian and conservative writers and public figures, from Ayn Rand to William F. Buckley, Jr. In her own time, Paterson was noted as a literary critic and novelist, and one of the wittiest writers in America. She is best known for The God of the Machine, also published by Transaction.

Culture and Libertyincludes many of Paterson's works that are out of print or have never before been published. Stephen Cox collected Paterson's words on themes she favored, illustrating leading features of her accomplishments and her views. Paterson's way of combining individualist ideas with provocative writing made people look forward to her next pronouncement on American culture. Her fame while she lived and worked and the continuing interest in her ideas and writing are monuments to a complex but strongly unified personality.

Paterson remains one of the most distinctive voices in American literary historyas this selection of her writings will indicate. This book is a must read for English majors, literary critics, humanities scholars, and students of American culture.

Introduction

A Note on the Text

Abbreviations and References

People Mentioned

Part I. Essays and Reviews
1. The True Individualist: Thoreau
2. The Reformer as Tyrant
3. What Is Known as a Practical Man
4. The Achievement of the Wright Brothers
5. American Concepts
6. But Is It True?
7. What Went Wrong
8. The Devolution of America
9. AQuestion of Privilege
10. Save Us, at Least, from Boredom
11. The Nobel Prize in Politics
12. The Culture of Communism
13. Freedom and Control
14. Whose Agent Is He?
15. Monkey-gland Economics