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Book Talk: “Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative”

Jennifer Burns is a historian of the twentieth century United States working at the intersection of intellectual, political, and cultural history, with a particular interest in ideas about the state, markets, and capitalism and how these play out in policy and politics. Her most recent book is Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, the first full biography of the influential economist and political figure. Her first book, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (Oxford, 2009), was an intellectual biography of the libertarian novelist Ayn Rand. Jennifer has published articles about the history of conservatism, libertarianism, and liberalism in a number of academic and popular journals, including Reviews

in American History, Modern Intellectual History, Journal of Cultural Economy, The New York Times, The New Republic, and Dissent.