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Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock (October 13, 1870 – August 19, 1945) was an American libertarian author, editor first of The Freeman and then The Nation, educational theorist, Georgist, and social critic of the early and middle 20th century. He was an outspoken opponent of the New Deal, and served as a fundamental inspiration for the modern libertarian and conservative movements, cited as an influence by William F. Buckley Jr.[1] He was one of the first Americans to self-identify as "libertarian". His best-known books are Memoirs of a Superfluous Man and Our Enemy, the State.

Albert Jay Nock

(1870-10-13)October 13, 1870
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.

August 19, 1945(1945-08-19) (aged 74)
Wakefield, Rhode Island, U.S.

Riverside Cemetery
South Kingstown, Rhode Island

Writer and social theorist

English

St. Stephen's College
(now known as Bard College)

1922–1943

Political philosophy

Old Right
Libertarianism

Our Enemy, the State

In popular culture[edit]

In the fictional The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith, as part of the North American Confederacy Series, in which the United States becomes a Libertarian state after a successful Whiskey Rebellion and the overthrow and execution of George Washington by firing squad for treason in 1794, Albert Jay Nock serves as the 18th President of the North American Confederacy from 1912 to 1928.

.[1] New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1922. [2]

The Myth of a Guilty Nation

The Freeman Book. B.W. Huebsch, 1924.

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Jefferson. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926 (also known as Mr. Jefferson).

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On Doing the Right Thing, and Other Essays. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928.

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Francis Rabelais: The Man and His Work. Harper and Brothers, 1929.

The Book of Journeyman: Essays from the New Freeman. New Freeman, 1930.

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The Theory of Education in the United States. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932.

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A Journey Into Rabelais's France. William Morrow & Company, 1934.

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A Journal of These Days: June 1932–December 1933. William Morrow & Company, 1934.

Our Enemy, the State. ePub MP3 HTML William Morrow & Company, 1935.

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Free Speech and Plain Language. William Morrow & Company, 1937.

Henry George: An Essay. William Morrow & Company, 1939.

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1943.

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Miscellany


Published posthumously:

Cline, Edward (January 8, 2009). . Capitalism Magazine. Archived from the original on October 3, 2013.

"Albert Jay Nock: How to Throw the Fight for Freedom"

Hamilton, Charles (2008). . In Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; Cato Institute. pp. 356–357. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n218. ISBN 978-1412965804. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024.

"Nock, Albert J. (1870–1945)"

Opitz, Edmund A (1975). (PDF). The Intercollegiate Review. X (1): 25–31.

"The Durable Mr. Nock"

Riggenbach, Jeff (September 10, 2010). . Mises Daily. Ludwig von Mises Institute.

"Albert Jay Nock and the Libertarian Tradition"

(October 12, 2007). "Albert Jay Nock: Forgotten Man of the Old Right". Mises Daily. Ludwig von Mises Institute.

Tucker, Jeffrey A.

at Project Gutenberg

Works by Albert Jay Nock

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Albert Jay Nock

Books available through one of the original founders and Honorable Secretary, Robert M. Thornton.

The Nockian Society

at JSTOR

Works by Albert Jay Nock

(Nock, 1934), reprinted in The American Conservative

The Dangers of Literacy

works published by Ludwig von Mises Institute

Literature Library: Albert Jay Nock

by Wendy McElroy

Nock on Education

Will Lissner remembers Nock

 : A collection of Nock's essays

Fulton's Lair's Nockian Page

 : Correspondence, photographs, and related drawings annotated and donated to Yale University by Ruth Robinson

Yale Library

Albert Jay Nock, Writings

Albert Jay Nock papers (MS 375). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

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