"Jim Powell is doing more 
than anyone else I know of to tell
the thrilling story of liberty."

-- Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times, 
A History of the Jews, A History of the American People and other books

     While researching The Triumph of Liberty, historian Jim Powell has visited libraries, booksellers, museums and historic sites in Europe, Asia and South America as well as the United States. 

     Powell has written more than 400 articles for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, Esquire, Architectural Digest, Barron's, Global Finance, Horizon, Saturday Evening Post, Science Digest, Family Circle, Travel/Holiday, Connoisseur, Town & Country, Bottom Line/Business, Money, American Heritage/Audacity, Reason, Liberty and other publications. His previous books were published by Putnam's and Macmillan.

     Since 1988, Powell has been a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.  Since 1992, he has been editor of Laissez Faire Books, the world's largest source of books on liberty, with readers in 90 countries. He has done work for the Manhattan Institute, the Institute for Humane Studies, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the National Right to Work Committee and Americans for Free Choice in Medicine. He has lectured in Argentina, Brazil, England, Germany and Japan. He has delivered lectures at Stanford, Harvard and other universities in the United States.

     Powell graduated from the University of Chicago in history. Among his professors were Rise of the West author William H. McNeill, economic historian Earl J. Hamilton and Daniel J. Boorstin who wrote The Americans, The Discoverers, The Creators and other books. At the University of Chicago, as an editor of New Individualist Review, Powell helped publish articles by future Nobel Laureates F.A. Hayek, Milton Friedman and George Stigler as well as other libertarian thinkers like Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt and Murray Rothbard. Powell performed research for future Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase.

Recent articles about the history of liberty, available online:

"Why has Liberty Flourished in the West?," Cato Policy Report, September/October 2000

"Heroes of Freedom," Liberty, October 2000

"The Miracle of Liberty," Washington Times, July 3, 2000

"20 most important books on liberty," LP News, May 2000

"Friedrich Hayek's extraordinary influence," Laissez Faire Books, May 1999

"Milton and Rose Friedman, capitalism's greatest living champions," 
Laissez Faire Books, July 1992

Copyright (C) 2000 by Jim Powell