Jim Powell
Biography
Jim Powell, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, is an expert in the history of liberty. He has lectured in England, Germany, Japan, Argentina, and Brazil as well as at Harvard, Stanford, and other universities across the United States. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Audacity/American Heritage, and other publications.
He is the author of several books, including The Triumph of Liberty: A 2,000-Year History Told through the Lives of Freedom’s Greatest Champions (Free Press, 2000), with a foreword by Paul Johnson. This book chronicles heroic struggles against tyranny, slavery, war, and mass murder. Powell’s book FDR’s Folly, How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression (2003) reported a wide range of findings—ignored by political historians and biographers—about the unexpected consequences of New Deal policies.
