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Evers Papers. See, for example, California Libertarian Report, Post Convention Issue no. 1,
YAF National Board, printed matter and reports, Box 2, Dowd Papers; Berle Hubbard to
Patrick Dowd, October 31, 1969, Letters Received, 1969–1970, Box 1, Dowd Papers; Patrick
Dowd to David Keene, December 6, 1969. I strongly disagree with Stephen Newman’s
contention, seconded by Jonathon Schoenwald, that Rothbard “deserves to be called
the founder of the modern libertarian movement.” Newman, Liberalism at Wit’s End:
The Libertarian Revolt against the Modern State (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
1984), 27. However much Rothbard wished to present himself as “Mr. Libertarian,” the
evidence simply does not support this claim. Rothbard certainly managed to hog the
spotlight and convince outsiders that he was the major theorist of libertarianism, but
his appeal was far more limited than Rand’s. Furthermore Rothbard’s extremism and
poor strategic thinking did much to damage the movement and the Libertarian Party.
Rothbard did, however, succeed in getting a book contract to write about libertarianism
in For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (New York: MacMillan, 1973).
25. See, for example, California Libertarian Report, Post Convention Issue no. 1, YAF
National Board, printed matter and reports, Box 2, Dowd Papers; Berle Hubbard to
Patrick Dowd, October 31, 1969, Letters Received, 1969–1970, Box 1, Dowd Papers.
26. Patrick Dowd to David Keene, December 6, 1969, Dowd Papers.
27. Society for Individual Liberty news release, November 21, 1969, SIL, Box 36,
Evers Papers; “Worth Repeating,” Rational Individualist 1, no. 13 (1969): 14, Box 15, David
Walter Collection, Hoover Institution.
28. Libertarian Caucus/Society for Individual Liberty News, November 22, 1969, SIL,
Box 36, Evers Papers; “The Year One in Retrospect,” SIL News 1, no. 10 (1970): 5.
29. “Society for Individual Liberty Directory, 1972,” SIL, Box 36, Evers Papers.
30. A Is A Libertarian Directory, January 1971, 1, Box 15, Walter Papers.
31. Ibid.
32. Ayn Rand, “Brief Summary,” The Objectivist, September 1971, 1090.
33. Chronicle, Monthly Newsletter of the Libertarian International, 1, no. 9 (1982),
Box 15, Walter Papers.
34. The disclaimer appeared in every issue. New Libertarian Notes, 1973, unlabeled
folder, Box 18, Walter Papers.
35. Gilbert Nash, “The Beat + The Buck = The Bucknick,” Swank, June 1967, 43–55.
36. Tuccille, It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand, 105–7.
37. Don Franzen, “Thoughts on the Post-revolutionary World,” SIL News 1, no. 7
(1970), 1, Walter Collection, Box 3, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University. All
further citations of SIL News are from this box and collection. Also printed in Protos 2,
no. 4 (1970), Box 25, Evers Papers.
38. Ibid., 1. Tibor Machan defi nes libertarianism as a purely political ideology
that “is a claim about the scope of permissible force or threat of force among human
beings, including human beings who constitute the governing administration of a given
human community; it is a political claim or theory and not some other, however much
it may presuppose a variety of other, nonpolitical claims.” Machan, “Libertarianism and
Conservatives,” Modem Age 24 (winter 1980): 21–33.
39. Franzen, “Forethoughts on the Post-Revolutionary World.”
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