June

The Lesson of Alta Vista Dorothy Palmieri Doyle 368 A reminder from the past that the individual can and should be more than a ward of the State. Fisher Ames: Forgotten Defender of Liberty Gregory Wolfe 371 He helped lay the economic and political foundations of liberty in America. Book Reviews: 377 "Seeds of Progress" by Leonard E. Read "American Made: Men Who Shaped the American Economy" by Harold C. Livesay "The United States in the 1980s" edited by Peter Duignan and Alvin Rabushka. Anyone wishing to communicate with authors may send first-class mail in care of THE FREEMAN for forwarding.

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