Gottfried on Gordon

Paul Gottfried reviews David Gordon's The Essential Rothbard: "Although young readers are urged to read Murray Rothbard in the original (his prose is truly engaging), David Gordon's biography provides a fine introduction to this feast of ideas. Gordon lays out his subject's major insights as an economist, ethicist, and historian. The biographical sections are also well worth reading, and it is hard to absorb them without feeling enormous affection for both Murray and his wife and helper of many years, JoAnn. On the purely human level, these two friends were heads and shoulders above most other people I have met in this lifetime."