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Canadian-born, American literary critic, author of The God of the Machine
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Biography
The Cato Institute: Isabel Paterson
Articles
Our Forgotten Goddess: Isabel Paterson and the origins of libertarianism, by Brian Doherty, Reason, Feb 2005
A review of The Woman and the Dynamo
"The God of the Machine was a radically individualist attempt to answer the question of why America was so rich and powerful. The most healthy and wealthy of cultures, said Paterson, ... had to run on 'absolute security of private property, full personal liberty, and firm autonomous regional bases for a federal structure.'"
Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson, and Ayn Rand: Three Women Who Inspired the Modern Libertarian Movement, by Jim Powell, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, May 1996
Related Topics: Rose Wilder Lane, Ayn Rand
Writings
The Humanitarian with the Guillotine, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Sep 1955
Reprinted from The God of the Machine
"... take the case of the truly needy man, who is not incapacitated ... suppose someone with no benevolent motive whatever ... should hire the needy man for a wage. ... the unphilanthropic employer has brought the man he employed back, into the production line, on the great circuit of energy ..."
Books
The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America
    by Stephen Cox, Sep 2004
Books Authored
The God of the Machine, 1943
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