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Hard cover, 8vo, in umber colored cloth with art deco style cover design in red and titles in gold, with red staining to top of text block, decorative endpapers, 264pp., First Edition. CONDITION: Very Good. A few light marks to boards. Light spotting to spine and top of text block. Pages lightly age-toned. Otherwise, clean with tight binding and no writing. AUTHOR Isabel Paterson (1886-1961) was a Canadian-American author, as well as a journalist and book columnist for many years at the New York Herald Tribune. Most notably, however, she is considered one of the three women responsible for the conservative political philosophy of libertarianism, along with Ayn Rand and Rose Wilder Lane. Rand contributed ideas for Paterson's major work, "The God of the Machine" (1943), which is Paterson's libertarian "manifesto", and Rand herself published her influential novel, "The Fountainhead" in the same year. One area in which the two authors disagreed was religion, which Rand rejected. "The Road of the Gods" is a novel in which Paterson describes a society with its own religion, and the conflict which comes from outsiders (the Romans) inflicting their values on a society; in that, there is some resemblance to Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel, "Things Fall Apart."
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