About this ebook
This biography takes a fresh look at the life and inspirational legacy of one of America's most passionate and dedicated thinkers. As detailed in this compact and highly compelling work, Douglass—in some ways a conservative, in other ways a revolutionary—espoused and lived the central idea of his work: we must be free to make ourselves the best people we can be.
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About the author
Timothy Sandefur is Vice President for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute. Before joining Goldwater, he served for 15 years as a litigator at the Pacific Legal Foundation, where he won important victories for economic liberty and participated in many significant eminent domain cases. He is the author of four books, The Permission Society: How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms into Privileges and What We Can Do About It (2017), Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America (second edition, coauthored with Christina Sandefur, 2016), The Conscience of The Constitution (2014), and The Right to Earn A Living: Economic Freedom And The Law (2010), as well as some 45 scholarly articles on subjects ranging from eminent domain and economic liberty to antitrust, copyright, evolution and creationism, slavery and the Civil War, and legal issues in Shakespeare and ancient Greek drama.
