Brits for Rationalism

Matt Welch | December 11, 2007

Congratulations to the Financial Times, for having the good sense to name Brian Doherty's Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement as one of its books of the year. Sez the Brits:

Brian Doherty's sympathetic, well-informed and endlessly entertaining tour traces the ways in which American libertarianism punches above its weight.

Buy the great stocking-stuffer of a book here, and follow its merry progress into the consciousness of a nation at Brian's Radicals for Capitalism website.

Comments

|12.11.07 @ 1:22PM|#

Dude, that book is way too big to be a "stocking stuffer."

Rimfax|12.11.07 @ 1:31PM|#

"...punches above it weight."

...unlike Ricky Hatton.

(Sorry, cheap shot.)

|12.11.07 @ 1:35PM|#

Shouldn't this post have been written by...what is name...Brian Doherty?

Balloon Maker|12.11.07 @ 1:37PM|#

I read the shit out of it!

LarryA|12.11.07 @ 1:49PM|#

Barely off-topic:

Two years ago England sent out V for Vendetta. This year we get The Golden Compass. Is someone in the Sceptered Isle waking up?

|12.11.07 @ 2:17PM|#

I'm waiting for Doherty's next book, an account of the rise of sexually transmitted diseases during the Summer of Love, called This Is Burning, Man!

|12.11.07 @ 3:42PM|#

Shouldn't this post have been written by...what is name...Brian Doherty?

Not that I think the staffers care what I say, but I hope Brian wasn't discouraged from writing this by my calling him "Book-plug Brian" a little while back.

It's all in good fun, a little grape-busting for writing such a lovely book...

Come back Brian!

|12.11.07 @ 3:50PM|#

Matt beat me to it, that's all!

|12.11.07 @ 4:25PM|#

Buy the great stocking-stuffer door stop of a book here

fixed

|12.11.07 @ 11:35PM|#

sage wrote: "Shouldn't this post have been written by...what is name...Brian Doherty?"

Welch is just a shill for Big Doherty!