The Triumph of Liberty
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- Full Title: The Triumph of Liberty: A 2,000-Year History, Told Through the Lives of Freedom's Greatest Champions
- Author(s): Jim Powell, foreword by Paul Johnson
- Year Published: 2000
- Publisher: The Free Press (imprint of Simon & Schuster)
- Publication Type: Commercial
- ISBN: 0-684-85967-X (hardcover)
- Description: As Powell describes it in his introduction, his book explores "the lives of remarkable individuals who made crucial contributions to liberty during the past two thousand years."
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Most chapters of this book are focused on specific people. The name of the person(s) discussed in each chapter are indicated in parentheses after the each chapter name. Chapters significantly related to Ayn Rand or Objectivism are indicated with bold.
- Foreword by Paul Johnson
- Introduction
- Natural Rights
- A Higher Law (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
- Agenda for Liberty (John Lilburne)
- Life, Liberty and Property (John Locke)
- A Right to Rebel (Thomas Paine)
- A Sophisticated, Radical Vision (Thomas Jefferson)
- Equal Rights (Mary Wollstonecraft)
- The Sin of Slavery (William Lloyd Garrison)
- Self-Ownership (Lysander Spooner)
- Creators and Destroyers (Ayn Rand)
- Toleration
- A Tolerant Mind (Desiderius Erasmus)
- An Open Society (Roger Williams)
- Brotherly Love (William Penn)
- The Sanctity of Private Life (Benjamin Constant)
- A Search for Truth (John Stuart Mill)
- Peace
- Natural Law and Peace (Hugo Grotius)
- Horrors of War (Francisco Goya)
- Harmonious Interests (Richard Cobden)
- Moral Imperative for Peace (William Ewart Gladstone)
- The Fallacy of Territorial Expansion (William Graham Sumner)
- "Trust But Verify" (Ronald Reagan)
- Self-Help
- Resourceful Enterprise (Benjamin Franklin)
- Cultivating Character (Samuel Smiles)
- Up from Slavery (Booker T. Washington)
- Children Achieving Independence (Maria Montessori)
- Individualism
- "Do What Thou Wilt" (Francois Rabelais)
- Spirituality of Individualism (Henry David Thoreau)
- Conscience and Wit (Mark Twain)
- Stylish Elegance (Albert Jay Nock)
- Feisty Free Spirit (H.L. Mencken)
- Buoyant Optimism (Rose Wilder Lane)
- Economic Liberty
- Laissez-Faire (Jacques Turgot)
- Invisible Hand (Adam Smith)
- Freedom from Plunder (Frederic Bastiat)
- A Free Civilization (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
- Spontaneous Progress (Herbert Spencer
- Markets Unlimited (Murray N. Rothbard)
- The Spirit of Liberty
- Heroic Vision (Friedrich Schiller)
- Joyous Affirmation (Ludwig van Beethoven)
- Majestic Compassion (Victor Hugo)
- Song and Dance (William S. Gilbert)
- White Hats, Black Hats (Louis L'Amour)
- Out of this World (Robert Heinlein)
- Dangers To Liberty
- Centralized Power (Alexis de Tocqueville)
- Power Corrupts (Lord Acton)
- Planned Chaos (Ludwig von Mises)
- The Worst on Top (F.A. Hayek)
- Regulations Backfire (George J. Stigler)
- Inflation and Depression (Milton Friedman)
- Involuntary Commitment (Thomas S. Szasz)
- Protecting Liberty
- An Independent Judiciary (Edward Coke)
- Popular Sovereignty (Algernon Sidney)
- A Separation of Powers (Baron de Montesquieu)
- A Written Constitution (James Madison)
- Taxing Limits, Spending Limits, Term Limits (James M. Buchanan)
- Privatization (Margaret Thatcher)
- Educating People (Leonard E. Read; Antony Fisher; Edward H. Crane III)
- Courage for Liberty
- Spark of Revolution (Samuel Adams)
- Valiant Voice (Charles James Fox)
- Generous Heart (Marquis de Lafayette)
- Passionate Oratory (Daniel O'Connell)
- Eyewitness Testimony (Frederick Douglass)
- Steadfast Devotion (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
- Colossal Courage (Raoul Wallenberg)
- Militant Nonviolence (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
- Liberty in the New Millennium
- A Selective Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
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