{"product_id":"the-individualists-9780691155548","title":"The Individualists","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Individualists\u003c\/i\u003e is a superb work of intellectual history. Anyone wishing to understand a modern political denomination encompassing such diverse creatures as the anarchist Albert Jay Nock, the priestess of capitalism Ayn Rand, the politician Rand Paul and the billionaire philanthropist Charles Koch ought to have a copy on his shelf.\"\u003cb\u003e---Barton Swaim, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the best guides you’ll find to the libertarian universe.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jesse Walker, \u003ci\u003eReason\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Zwolinski and Tomasi’s historical survey of the libertarian movement, warts and all, is uncommonly honest and comprehensive. Purely as exegesis, the book is without peer, and anyone who wants to know what libertarianism is should run, not walk, to pick it up.\"\u003cb\u003e---Matt McManus, \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi [are] both committed libertarians who are appalled at the movement’s turn toward a harder-edged conservatism. . . . As they see it, libertarianism once had a left-of-center valence—and could still reclaim it\"\u003cb\u003e---Benjamin Wallace-Wells, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If there is one lesson to take away from \u003ci\u003eThe Individualists\u003c\/i\u003e, it’s that the meaning of libertarianism has always been contested and in flux, a movement more capacious than it is often given credit for. . . . [It] doesn’t shy away from the ugly parts of libertarianism, but it highlights much more that libertarians can take pride in.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jacob Grier, \u003ci\u003eWashington Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Some books become good friends. They not only stimulate our minds, but they also speak to our very souls.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndividualists . . . i\u003c\/i\u003es such a book. . . excellent, wisely written, and beautifully crafted.”\"\u003cb\u003e---Bradley J. Birzer, \u003ci\u003eLaw \u0026amp; Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This represents the key division running through the delightful new book \u003ci\u003eThe Individualists\u003c\/i\u003e, a fabulous intellectual history from Matt Zwolinksi and John Tomasi, two sympathetic biographers of the ideology who nonetheless acknowledge that their co-ideologists can be a bit impractical, even zany. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Individualists \u003c\/i\u003eis a clarifying work that both explains and demonstrates how libertarianism operates as a coherent philosophy and how it differs from other members of its philosophical family. Its authors write with a palpable love of ideas and even of the sometimes-goofy, often-curmudgeonly characters who propagated them—and who find the idea of a driver’s license a license to totalitarianism.\"\u003cb\u003e---Tal Fortgang, \u003ci\u003eCommentary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865527333207,"sku":"9780691155548","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691155548.jpg?v=1722274399","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-individualists-9780691155548","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}