Radicals for Capitalism

"This is Reason magazine senior editor Dougherty’s splendidly researched 2007 survey of libertarian thinkers and activists, from Ayn Rand to Murray Rothbard and beyond, and it is full of colourful stories about the once well-known figures who settled the frontier of American radical individualism and free-market theory. Dougherty is especially good at explaining complex ideas in simple language while never taking his eye off the typically eccentric personalities that made it so. I love the flavour it gives you of the time. In the late 40s/early 50s some of these right-wingers, like William Mullindore, who was vice-president of Edison in Southern California, and Leonard Read, all these businessmen types went off to Bretton Woods and all took acid together. This was the very beginning of acid. Mullindore said it really plugs you in and gives you voltage for thinking. He used electric company metaphors to describe his experience. Hilarious."