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Mr. Tuccille, when he ran for Governor, enrolled "advance" workers from the LP's Manhattan campaign headquarters, and those workers accompanied him to a few community centers, where he was usually the only gubernatorial candidate to address the assembled citizens. | '''Jerome Tuccille''' is best known among libertarians as the author of the 1971 book ''[[It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand]]'', a humorous romp through the early libertarian movement with characters and their views exaggerated for comedic effect. He is also the author of the 1970 book ''Radical Libertarianism'', and along with [[Murray Rothbard]] helped select the books reprinted in the Arno Press [[Right Wing Individualist Tradition in America]] series. | ||
In 1974 he ran as the [[Free Libertarian Party of New York]] candidate for governor. Mr. Tuccille, when he ran for Governor, enrolled "advance" workers from the LP's Manhattan campaign headquarters, and those workers accompanied him to a few community centers, where he was usually the only gubernatorial candidate to address the assembled citizens. | |||
However, by 1977 he had left the libertarian movement, announcing his departure with an article in the April 29, 1977 issue of ''[[National Review]]'', "Goodbye Utopia - The Failure of Libertarianism", and began calling himself a [[conservative]]. | |||
He has continued to write books including a number of biographies of successful people like [[Donald Trump]], [[Alan Greenspan]], the Gallo wine family, the Hunt family of Texas, and [[Rupert Murdoch]]. His 1999 book ''It Still Begins With Ayn Rand'' begins by picking up where ''It Usually Begins'' left off, and covers his 1974 Libertarian run for governor of New York, but the remainder of the book is a commentary on several U.S. presidents of the late 20th century and does not concern the libertarian movement after 1974. | |||
His son, [[J.D. Tuccille]], is a libertarian writer, blogger, and [[civil liberties]] activist and was the editor of [[Free-market.net]] and About.com's civil liberties page. | |||
==Links== | |||
* [http://mises.org/journals/lr/LR778.pdf ''Libertarian Review'', August 1977, with article criticizing Tuccille's 1977 ''National Review'' article] | |||
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