Founder of a movement.

• Author: Doherty, Brian
• Position: 'Culture & Liberty,' collected work of libertarian Isabel Paterson - Briefly Noted - Brief article - Book review

Isabel Paterson was a novelist and a literary critic for the New York Herald-Tribune for more than two decades beginning in the 1920S. Her book The God of the Machine was a founding text of the modern libertarian movement as it grew in the '40S.

From her biographer Stephen Cox comes the first volume collecting some of her journalism and letters, Culture & Liberty (Transaction). Watching as she boldly swims against the currents of her time is inspiring. She wrote in 1933 that "we believe in the classic American concepts of a purely political government, which shall not undertake to save people's...