Publisher's Synopsis
In 2010 in South Fulton, Tennessee, each household paid the local fire department an annual fee of $75. That year, Gene Cranick's house caught fire. But the fire department refused to come because Cranick had not paid the yearly fee, leaving his home in ashes. Observers across the political spectrum agreed that the fire department's decision revealed the true face of libertarianism. But libertarianism was not always about callous indifference to the misfortunes of others. Andrew Koppelman's book provides a lively history of American libertarianism and how it became corrupted by delusion and greed.
