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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Frontiers; The Shaping of I.M.P.; Paterson the Novelist; Limited Government; Unlimited Possibilities; The God of the Machine; Survival; Notes; A Note on the Text; Abbreviations and References; People Mentioned; Part I: Essays and Reviews; Chapter 1: The True Individualist: Thoreau; Notes; Chapter 2: The Reformer as Tyrant; Notes; Chapter 3: What Is Known as a Practical Man; Notes; Chapter 4: The Achievement of the Wright Brothers; Chapter 5: American Concepts; Note; Chapter 6: But Is It True?; Notes; Chapter 7: What Went Wrong; Notes |
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Chapter 8: The Devolution of AmericaNotes; Chapter 9: A Question of Privilege; Chapter 10: Save Us, at Least, from Boredom; Notes; Chapter 11: The Nobel Prize in Politics; Notes; Chapter 12: The Culture of Communism; Notes; Chapter 13: Freedom and Control; Notes; Chapter 14: Whose Agent Is He?; Notes; Chapter 15: Monkey-gland Economics; Notes; Chapter 16: The Elusive Law of Wages; Notes; Chapter 17: The Man with One Idea; Notes; Chapter 18: What Do They Do All Day?; Notes; Chapter 19: Adventures in Biology and Bunk; Notes |
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Chapter 20: The Riddle of Chief Justice Taney in the Dred Scott DecisionNotes; Chapter 21: Has the World Grown Smaller?; Notes; Chapter 22: A Man of Destiny; Notes; Chapter 23: Learning to Read: Child's Play; Shocking Episode; Babies: Intellectual Beings; Trouble Ahead; Notes; Chapter 24: What the Christmas Story Means; Notes; Part II: Letters; Chapter 25: Letters to 1940; Notes; Chapter 26: Letters, 1940-1949; Notes; Chapter 27: Letters, 1950 and After; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
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 Liberty includes many of Patersons works that are out of print or have never before been published. Stephen Cox collected Patersons words on themes she favored, illustrating leading features of her accomplishments and her views. Patersons 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 history-as 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 14, 2015) |
| Subject |
Paterson, Isabel.
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| SUBJECT |
Paterson, Isabel, 1886-1961 fast |
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American literature -- Women authors.
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Criticism -- United States
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Libertarian literature.
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Libertarianism -- United States
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature -- Women authors
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Criticism
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Libertarian literature
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Libertarianism
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Cox, Stephen D., 1948- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781412856195 |
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1412856191 |
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