Welcome to Cato Daily Podcast with your host Anastasia Yuglova. This episode is for Friday, March 23rd.

Yesterday at the Cato Institute, Reason magazine Senior Editor Brian Doherty, spoke about his new book,

Radicals for Capitalism, a freewheeling history of the modern American

Libertarian Movement.

Brian is our guest on the show today, but please note that this podcast is in no way a substitute

for actually reading and absorbing the almost 700 page

tome, which is chock full of memorable anecdotes and useful history about everyone who helped

craft the ideas that shaped the Libertarian movement today.

Brian, let's just start with the obvious question. ideas that shaped the libertarian movement today.

Brian, let's just start with the obvious question then.

Why this book?

I had been a believer in Libertarian ideas for many years.

Actually, my book was born right at the Cato Institute. I was

working here in the early 90s just sort of talking over libertarian history and

gossip as young libertarians like to do when we realize there was no authoritative source that

traced the history and stories of the people who had advocated these ideas and especially in the American

context where these ideas really are at the heart of the American founding, the Declaration of Independence,

is one of the most libertarian documents around.

It seemed a real shame that there was no one who had told their stories and the stories of the

things they had accomplished in America in the 20th century

and I decided to try to do it and ten years later here it is.

So this book has been a decade in the making.

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