Articles
Finding Atlas: Before Ayn Rand there was Isabel Paterson, by Stephen Cox, The American Conservative, 4 May 2009
Related Topic: Ayn Rand
Biographical account highlighting Paterson's influence on Ayn Rand
"Paterson (1886-1961) was a novelist and literary critic. ... Stubborn and sharp-witted, she was also one of the New Deal's fiercest foes. ... She had only two years of formal schooling. But she learned from her own experience, as well as her encyclopedic knowledge of history, that economic success results from individual initiative, not federal management."
Related Topic: Ayn Rand
Biographical account highlighting Paterson's influence on Ayn Rand
"Paterson (1886-1961) was a novelist and literary critic. ... Stubborn and sharp-witted, she was also one of the New Deal's fiercest foes. ... She had only two years of formal schooling. But she learned from her own experience, as well as her encyclopedic knowledge of history, that economic success results from individual initiative, not federal management."
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.'"
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
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 ..."
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
by Stephen Cox, Sep 2004
- ISBN 0765802414
: Hardcover, Transaction Publishers, 2004
Books Authored
The God of the Machine, 1943
- ISBN 1560006668
: Paperback, Transaction Publishers, 1993