Praise for Radicals
Oh sure, the Wall Street Journal praise is nice and all, but I think my colleague Brian Doherty ought to put Gene Healy's review of Radicals for Capitalism on the back of the paperback edition:
I don't know how a noncrazy person would like Brian Doherty's new book Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, but I think it's terrific. I wouldn't recommend doing what I just did, though. Due to a cancelled flight and some airline-related hassles, I spent an enormous amount of time Sunday and Monday sitting around airports, plowing through Brian's book. I must have done 450 pages in two concentrated chunks. Story after story of surpassingly weird and sometimes wonderful people in an intense blur, with my back up against a post, waiting for the Southwest Airlines cattle call. It was like a self-imposed Clockwork Orange experiment designed to cure me of libertarianism. Ha, ha: it didn't take. Though at the end of it, I hesitated to go to sleep for fear I'd have nightmares about Ayn Rand chasing me from arrival gate to baggage claim, loudly demanding sexual favors.
List of "25 Most Inappropriate Things an Objectivist Can Say During Sex" here .