Leonard Read

Leonard Edward Read was an American businessman, World War I veteran, and libertarian political activist. Read supported the Austrian School of Economics and started the Foundation for Economic Education. He also wrote 29 books and the essay I, Pencil. The magazine he and the Foundation for Economic Education published called The Freeman was something that Ronald Reagan read and Reagan said that it was part of why he became a conservative.

Category:Businesspeople from Michigan
Category:1898 births
Category:1983 deaths