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Title: Leonard P. Liggio papers
Date (inclusive): 1933-2014
Collection Number: 2018C43
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
37 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes
(20.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, conference papers, personal documents, printed matter, and audiovisual material relating to libertarian
political and free market thought.
Creator:
Atlas Network
Creator:
Liggio, Leonard P.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2018.
[Identification of item], Leonard P. Liggio papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives
| 1933 | Born, New York City |
| 1955 | B.S., Georgetown University |
| 1959 | M.A., Fordham University |
| 1968-1975 | Faculty, City College of New York |
| 1975-1977 | Faculty, State University of New York, Old Westbury |
| 1977 | Ph.D., Fordham University |
| 1977-1978 | Vice president, Cato Institute |
| 1980-1989 | President, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University |
| 1985-2014 | Research professor, George Mason University |
| 1994-2014 | Executive vice president, Atlas Economic Research Foundation |
| 2002-2004 | President, Mont Pelerin Society |
| 2014 | Died, Washington, D.C. |
Scope and Contents of Collection
The papers of Leonard P. Liggio in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives document Liggio's career as an economic historian
and classical liberal scholar. He was consistent in holding free market and libertarian views throughout his life, and promoted
these ideas not only in academic writings but as a journalist, conference organizer and fund raiser. He was associated with
the Libertarian Party and with numerous free market organizations in the United States and abroad, among them the Institute
for Humane Studies at George Mason University, Cato Institute, Liberty Fund, Philadelphia Society, Institute of Economic Affairs,
Templeton Foundation, Mont Pelerin Society and Atlas Economic Research Foundation (subsequently Atlas Network).
The Liggio Papers in the Hoover Institution do not cover his life comprehensively. They are most detailed on Liggio's activities
during the 1960s and 1970s, with spottier coverage of those after 1980. An interesting feature of Liggio's early development
lay in what he felt to be a convergence between Old Right and New Left interpretations of American history. One illustration
of this came in 1971, when, with the Vietnam War in the background, he organized a New Deal Foreign Policy Symposium, bringing
together revisionist historians of both persuasions.
The collection is arranged in ten series. The Correspondence series indicates the range of Liggio's collegial contacts during
the 1960s and 1970s in particular. The Speeches and Writings series consists of Liggio's own writings. A large proportion
of these are unpublished. Liggio was closely associated with Murray Rothbard and the collection includes extensive drafts
by Liggio for Rothbard's two-volume history of the United States, Conceived in Liberty.
The Conferences File documents several conferences in which Liggio had a hand, the New Deal Foreign Policy Symposium as well
as others. More unpublished scholarly writings by other persons are to be found in the Writings by Others file. The Mont
Pelerin Society File consists of the circulated records of the Society distributed to members. Liggio served a term as president
of the Society.
There are also a Biographical File, a Subject File, a file of Printed Matter, a small Audiovisual File and an Oversize File.
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives acquired the Leonard P. Liggio Papers from the Atlas Network in 2018.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Free enterprise
Liberty
Libertarianism