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	Isabel Paterson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isabel Bowler Paterson (January 22, 1886, Manitoulin Island Canada -- 1961) was a journalist, author, political philosopher, and a leading literary critic of her day.
		Her biographer Cox (2004) believes Paterson is the "earliest progenitor of libertarianism as we know it today." Ayn Rand (strictly speaking, not a libertarian) wrote in a letter in the 1940s that The God of the Machine "does for capitalism what Das Kapital does for the Reds and what the Bible did for Christianity".
		Paterson influenced the post-WWII rise of articulate American conservatism through her correspondence with the young Russell Kirk in the 1940s, and with the young William F. Buckley in the 1950s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isabel_Paterson (827 words)

	Gods of the Copybook Headings: In Profile: Isabel Paterson
		Isabel Paterson was born on January 22nd, 1886, at Tehkummah, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, and spent much of her childhood in Alberta and Utah.
		Paterson's view was that political and economic freedom was the mainspring of human progress and used often obtuse references to mechanical engineering to explain her points.
		Isabel Paterson died on January 10th, 1961, and was buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in New Jersey.
	godscopybook.blogs.com /gpb/2005/01/in_profile_isab.html (988 words)

	A Woman With Impact by Stephen Cox
		By the late 1920s, Isabel Paterson was using her columns, articles, novels, and personal contacts to present some of the most advanced ideas of individual freedom to be found in America.
		Paterson’s opposition to the state’s intervention in the domestic economy came partly from her belief in individual rights and partly from her understanding of economics, an understanding that was a good deal more advanced than that of most professional economists of her time.
		Paterson’s approach to politics got her into trouble with almost everyone – the communists, the New Deal liberals, the big-government conservatives, and everyone who simply wanted to stay in the middle of the road, wherever the road happened to be going.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig5/cox1.html (1153 words)

	Amazon.de: The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America: English Books: Stephen D. Cox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Novelist, columnist, cultural critic, political theorist - Isabel Paterson was one of the most extraordinary personalities of the 1930s, renowned for her incisive wit and her unique interpretation of the American experience.
		A radical individualist in both theory and practice, Paterson spent her early life on the Western frontier, "lavished" two years on formal education, set a record for high-altitude flight, became a journalist by "accident," and made herself a fearless chronicler and conscience of New York literary life.
		Paterson identified the fundamental issues at stake in the crises of the twentieth century and responded with an original theory of history and political economy.
	www.amazon.de /Woman-Dynamo-Isabel-Paterson-America/dp/0765802414 (474 words)

	'Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America' by Wendy McElroy
		Raised in the Wild West at the turn of the 19th century, she was so enchanted by the age of machinery that she took to the sky and set an American aeronautic record for altitude with a female passenger on board.
		Paterson eloquently argues that productivity, as well as freedom, sprang from the Western world’s embrace of a “society of contract” as opposed to the “society of status” which had defined feudalism.
		The mark of the success of Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America as a book of intellectual history is that it leaves the reader with such questions.
	www.lewrockwell.com /mcelroy/mcelroy66.html (1220 words)

	The Cato Institute: Isabel Paterson
		Paterson more than made up for the lack of schooling with self-directed education, voraciously reading the classics of poetry and literature.
		The union does not appear to have been a particularly happy one: she attributed the unusual spelling of her surname, with a single rather than a double "t," to the fact that her husband's family was too cheap to use two.
		Paterson wrote her final three novels during this time as well: Never Ask the End (1933), which was the most experimental and non-linear of her narratives, The Golden Vanity (1934), and If It Prove Fair Weather (1940).
	www.cato.org /special/threewomen/paterson.html (1018 words)

	Our forgotten goddess: Isabel Paterson and the origins of libertarianism Reason - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Her first biography, The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America, has just been published, written by Stephen Cox, a literature professor at the University of California at San Diego.
		Nock declared that Lane's and Paterson's works were "the only intelligible books on the philosophy of individualism that have been written in America this century." The two female journalists had "shown the male world of this period how to think fundamentally....
		But she herself was a native Canadian, born Isabel Bowler (or possibly Mary Isabel Bowler; Cox was unable to ascertain her birth name) on an island in the middle of Lake Huron on January 22, 1886, one of nine children.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1568/is_9_36/ai_n8709112 (787 words)

	Hawaii Reporter: Hawaii Reporter
		Paterson was appalled by the love for state planning that ruled the literary intellectuals of the ’30s.
		Paterson tried to demonstrate throughout The God of the Machine what those correct principles are and show how various cultures rose or fell based on their adherence to them.
		Paterson, the novelist and literary critic, believed so much in the centrality of ideas to human history that she thought the world of books “actually comprises the world [human beings] have lived in, both mentally and physically.
	www.hawaiireporter.com /story.aspx?4f468430-2362-4f72-a50c-0da5a53523c7 (2527 words)

	The dynamic IMP National Review - Find Articles
		Isabel Paterson was born in Canada and raised in rural Michigan in extreme poverty.
		She was everywhere known as "Pat," and it is somewhere recorded that her bone-lazy in-laws excised one of the t's from the conventional spelling of Patterson on the grounds that, over a lifetime, that economy would substantially reduce the energies expended in writing out their last name.
		Isabel Paterson's third cognomen was "I.M.P." These were the initials she used in the learned and terrifying weekly book column that, for 25 years, she wrote for the Herald Tribune Book Review.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_23_56/ai_n13648325 (841 words)

	Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson, and Ayn Rand: Three Women Who Inspired the Modern Libertarian Movement \| The ...
		Paterson held stubbornly to her views and told all who would listen what she thought about an issue.
		Paterson wrote novels and some 1,200 newspaper columns, but it was The God of the Machine which secured her immortality in the annals of liberty.
		Paterson celebrated private entrepreneurs, who are the primary source of human progress.
	www.fee.org /publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=3345 (5322 words)

	Laissez Faire Books
		For it boasts many of the same virtues: torrents of new information about a fascinating, mysterious woman; a superbly crafted narrative that is as much art as scholarship; and a sympathetic yet objective viewpoint that virtually channels the spirit of its subject.
		Along with Rand and Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson (1886-1960) was one of the "Three Furies of Libertarianism" who in 1943 published landmark works in the history of the modern libertarian movement.
		Today Isabel Paterson may not loom as large on the cultural horizon as the woman whose philosophy she helped shape.
	www.lfb.com /index.php?stocknumber=IN8842 (743 words)

	Isabel Paterson Biography Fills in Gaps in American Intellectual History » Rational Review
		The truth is that Isabel Paterson seems to have been one of the great autodidacts of the last two centuries, with a voracious appetite for reading.
		Paterson is likely doomed to continue in the obscurity into which she almost instantly fell after being fired for political incorrectness by the Herald Tribune in 1949.
		Paterson had invested much of the money she earned from these books in real estate, so, when she suddenly found retirement thrust upon her, she withdrew from Manhattan, took up residence in one of her country houses, and began living on her Herald Tribune pension and the proceeds of her investments.
	www.rationalreview.com /content/16115 (4606 words)

	Isabel Paterson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Isabel Paterson (born January 22,1886; died 1961) was a best-selling writer, influential literary critic, and philosopher.
		She is known as one of the three founding mothers of libertarianism, and the one to whom the other two were intellectually indebted.
		Paterson opposed many of popular ideas of her time in the 1930s and 40s.
	isabel-paterson.iqnaut.net (178 words)

	Amazon.com: The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America: Books: Stephen Cox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Paterson was also a successful novelist and one of the most important columnists and book reviewers of her time.
		Paterson was a compulsive reader, particularly in history and politics.
		I really enjoyed reading this biography of Isabel Paterson, mostly I suppose because she is a fellow traveler to me. An American living from 1886–1960, Paterson was a libertarian intellectual who lived mostly alone in a world which did not understand.
	www.amazon.com /Woman-Dynamo-Isabel-Paterson-America/dp/0765802414 (1293 words)

	The Anger of Compassion: Happy Birthday, Isabel Paterson
		It is as if our age were bent on committing suicide in loyalty to the premise that the more pressing a problem, the less thought one must give it.
		This cultural context adds an extra element of urgency to the importance of The God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson -- a book which would be of great significance in any period, but which, today, has the effect of a unique phenomenon: it is a work of specifically political philosophy.
		But Isabel Paterson is not forgotten: Stephen Cox at Liberty and Power mentioned her on Thursday, complete with lots of quotes.
	www.ladysmaidjewels.com /Cblog/archives/000531.html (588 words)

	Gods of the Copybook Headings: Isabel Paterson on Public Education
		It is almost metaphysical-sounding to my postmodern ears, but I can digest it much more easily by assuming that what she calls energy is a metaphor rather than the (meta)physical concept which, to me, it sounds like she is conveying.
		Both Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson were raised in what we would call today absolute poverty, spoiled sons and daughters of capitalism that we are.
		In the case of Lane, she was born in a dugout in North Dakota, I believe.
	godscopybook.blogs.com /gpb/2005/01/isabel_paterson.html (875 words)

	History News Network
		As I argued in my book, The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America (Transaction, 2004), Paterson may have been the first person to assemble the little constellation of ideas and attitudes that we know as modern libertarianism.
		Two of her own books are in print: her original theory of history and politics, The God of the Machine (1943), and one of her fine novels, the introspective Never Ask the End (1933).
		Paterson’s ideas are hard to summarize, because she is such a good writer, sentence by sentence, that one often ends up just quoting what she had to say.
	hnn.us /blogs/entries/20730.html (584 words)

	Elizabeth Wilson
		There were two other Elizabeth Wilsons born in Newhaven in 1760 and 1765, however, the one born in 1761 matches the age at the time of death, plus, named their two daughters Elizabeth and Isabel.
		Isabel Wilson was born on the 24th and christened on 27th June 1756 in Newhaven.
		Elizabeth Wilson was born on the 1st and christened on 4th October 1761 in Newhaven, and married on the 8th of December 1786 in Newhaven to Walter Lyalls.
	home.comcast.net /~derek2000/tree/gggg_gp/elwi1761.htm (580 words)

	William F. Buckley Jr. on Stephen Cox’s The Woman and the Dynamo on National Review Online
		Professor Cox discloses that Paterson's friend and enthusiast Sam Welles, who wrote for Time magazine, was so carried away by the book that he undertook a 22,000-word condensation of it, which he tried to sell to the Reader's Digest.
		Paterson's book was not readable in 1943, isn't readable in 2004, and has had no definable impact, discernible to this author, on the corpus of conservative, anti-socialist thought.
		I will suggest a few minor changes aimed at dissipating the impression that you are pursuing a vendetta.' She would not see the logic of this proposal; in fact, she would not discuss it.
	www.nationalreview.com /books/wfb200503011043.asp (1702 words)

	The London Fog: Isabel Paterson shows up on my favourite blog
		Isabel Paterson was born on Manitoulin Island and spent many of her childhood years in Alberta.
		Paterson saw as clearly as Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand (the three contemporary authors who are among the most forceful proponents of liberty the twentieth-century ever produced) that any collective ideology leads to stagnation, poverty, corruption and slavery.
		But don't listen to me. Read the profile of Isabel Paterson on The Gods of the Copybook Headings and then go out and find the book.
	thelondonfog.blogspot.com /2005/01/isabel-paterson-shows-up-on-my.html (820 words)

	The History of Free Nations
		Or at least that is what I invite you to consider, as I try to tell a view of history which derives in large part from the view expressed by Isabel Paterson.
		To explain this, Isabel Paterson emphasized the length and thinness of the communication channel between a mother state and its colonies.
		Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine, 1943.
	www.freenation.org /antechamber/HistoryOfFreeNations.html (3640 words)

	The Classical Essayists.
		Born on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, a farm girl with no formal education (she was a voracious reader and had contempt for the educated who never took the time to read the great classics), Paterson by 18 was working as a waitress.
		She turned to writing and eventually made a pretty good living as a journalist (she did write a few fictional novels, but apparently they were not successful).
		Mencken, a person whom she knew and with whom she shared many of the same ideas.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Literary/BiosEssayists.htm (4074 words)

	Amazon.com: The God of the Machine: Books: Isabel Paterson,Stephen D. Cox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America by Stephen Cox
		Paterson has for the most part taken the correct position on them.
		Paterson looks at the whole sweep of history, from ancient to contemporary, and relates it to the ideas and principles of freedom.
	www.amazon.com /God-Machine-Isabel-Paterson/dp/1560006668 (1256 words)

	History News Network
		Paterson was a wit, an intellectual pioneer, and the rare cultural critic whose work is fresh and alive, three generations after she published it.
		To celebrate her birthday, I don’t want to rehearse the facts of her life, no matter how colorful they are (and they’re colorful, all right).
		The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people--and you can guess for yourself which is likely to be done.
	hnn.us /blogs/comments/9717.html (1535 words)

	History News Network
		Paterson is one of the crucial figures in 20th-century libertarianism (see her fascinating political treatise God of the Machine, Stephen Cox's excellent bio The Woman and the Dynamo, and various informational articles here, here, here, here, and here), but there’s nothing especially libertarian about this novel.
		While libertarian themes sometimes surface in her novels, Paterson wasn’t a "political novelist"; although she was Ayn Rand's chief mentor, her novels have more in common with, say, To the Lighthouse than with Atlas Shrugged.
		What's important is that Paterson was a good novelist, one whose work deserves to be rescued from obscurity.
	www.hnn.us /blogs/entries/15540.html (181 words)

	WendyMcElroy.com: Florence F. Kelly on Isabel Paterson's 1st book
		Isabel Paterson was one of the leading libertarian theorists of the early-to-mid-20th century, and a major influence on Ayn Rand.
		It now turns out that their trajectories intersected: Kelly wrote a review of Paterson’s first (or first published, anyway) novel, The Shadow Riders.
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	www.wendymcelroy.com /news.php?extend.570 (697 words)

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