Edward C. Harwood took the government to task before it was cool.
The temptation arises to see the American right as a belated reaction to the New Deal with a Year Zero occurring sometime between Harry Truman’s swearing-in and Dwight Eisenhower’s reelection. This obscures a reality of such pre-movement conservatives as Albert Jay Nock, Rose Wilder Lane, John T. Flynn, Garet Garrett, Henry Hazlitt, and Isabel Paterson, who fought a valiant albeit losing fight against the New Deal.
The legacy of one such unheralded figure, Edward C. Harwood, thrives at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) and its mansion centerpiece in the Berkshires. A West Point graduate, longtime Army officer, overseer of ...