Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
by Jennifer Burns
592 pages
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Nov 2023
Recently released, Jennifer Burns’s “Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative” is the most significant biography of Friedman ever published. Burns is an associate professor of history at Stanford and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is also the author of “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.”
In this remarkably scholarly and thoughtful biography, Burns traces Friedman’s life from humble New Jersey roots to academia, government and eventually to the top of his field. Based on nearly a decade of research and with impressive historical context and detail, this biography overpowers the other notable work on Friedman’s life…
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