Known in his day as Mr. Libertarian, Murray Rothbard was prolific to a preposterous degree, writing enormously valuable works in economics, history, philosophy, and related fields.



And in addition to all that, a steady stream of books and monographs have been released since his death in 1995. I've often said that many professors today only wish they could be as productive as a dead Murray Rothbard.



As a spare time project, Rothbard wrote a four-volume series on colonial America called Conceived in Liberty.



A fifth volume, bringing the story through the Constitution, existed only in Rothbard's notoriously illegible handwriting.



Since nobody could read that handwriting, the fifth volume would never see the light of day.



Or so we thought.



Incredibly, someone figured out how to read what Rothbard wrote.



Economics professor Patrick Newman cracked the code. He studied and studied Rothbard's handwriting until it just clicked.



The fifth volume of Conceived in Liberty was released over the weekend, during the Mises Institute's Supporters Summit in Los Angeles, an event I mentioned several times in my emails. The book features a foreword by Judge Andrew Napolitano and a preface by your host here.



This week on the Tom Woods Show Patrick Newman will join me to discuss it.



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