From Reason
More often, though, the conversion stories include unplanned encounters with books: the writings of Ayn Rand, Robert Heinlein, and Robert Anton Wilson; moldy old Reader’s Digest versions of Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom; used-bookstore copies of Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty; unsolicited Laissez-Faire Books catalogs.
<y two cents: I can vouch for this. I devoured Heinlein as a teenager and a young adult. Burt I grew up in a working-class household. Eventually, Heinlein’s basically libertarian values won out and I rejected knew-jerk libertarianism. I still lean toward the liberal among other libertarians.
