Roots of Freedom is a primer on the thinkers and ideas that, over many centuries, have laid the foundations of free societies. Concepts such as the rule of law, independent judiciary, limited government, free markets, and individual autonomy are traced in the writings of (among others) Luther, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Hume, Adam Smith, the American founders, Alexis de Tocqueville, and John Stuart Mill.
"Roots of Freedom is most appropriate for the person who wants to be introduced to the great sweep of Western political thought in fewer than two hundred pages. It is well-written and balanced and I can think of few better services a professor could do for an undergraduate today than putting this book into their hands and then waiting for them to return with an appetite for more."
