Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by author Jennifer Burns

New Canaan Library is pleased to have rescheduled author Jennifer Burns to discuss her new book Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, which brings to life one of the twentieth century’s most influential economists. More than an economist, Friedman was an innovative policy thinker and a major ideological figurehead whose vision—for reduced government, expanded markets, and the twinned forces of capitalism and freedom—circled the globe and reshaped American politics. 

Jennifer Burns, a New Canaan native and New Canaan Country School graduate, is an Associate Professor of History at Stanford University, where she teaches courses on American history. She is the author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (Oxford, 2009). Jennifer is delighted to return to New Canaan Library, where she spent many hours as a child, and to partner with Elm Street Books, which her parents, John and Barbara Burns, helped start.