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The dynamic IMP.(The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America)(Book Review)

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The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America, by Stephen Cox (Transaction, 418 pp., $39.95)

IF you were around in 1943 (which is doubtful: even I, age 17, was only just barely around) you may have noticed that three books important to libertarian history coincidentally appeared: three books by three formidable women. There was Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, Rose Wilder Lane's The Discovery of Freedom, and Isabel Paterson's The God of the Machine.

This was truly a phenomenon. A disposition to spot creeping socialism, let alone the will to contain it, hadn't attracted many people in the book world. Americans--in and out of the book ...

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