I maintain errata pages for all my books, to list errors I discover after publication. If you notice a factual error in Freedom's Furies, please let me know and I'll include it here.
1. Page 345: My wording here implies that the quotation is from Averroes. It isn't; it's a quotation from Etienne Gilson, who was paraphrasing Averroes.
2. Page 250: in describing Almanzo’s trip to get the grain in The Long Winter, I say “Royal accompanies him.” Actually it’s his friend Cap Garland who does so.
3. Page 470 note 117 incorrectly states the date of the letter from Paterson to Rand (which contained the Averroes reference) as circa December 1943. This should say circa October. (It is correctly identified as October on page 345).
4. Page 269: Katharine Wright's name is misspelled Katherine.
5. Page 333: I refer to Louis Armstrong’s song “W.P.A.,” a sly attack on Roosevelt’s welfare program, and I say that Columbia records “received a call from Washington and withdrew the record.” According to a contemporaneous Time magazine article I’d not known about when writing the book, the leader of the effort to ban the record was actually the communist jazz critic John Hammond, who used his connections with organized labor to get the record taken off of store shelves.
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