Freedom’s Three Furies

DAVID BEITO is professor emeritus in the History Department of the University of Alabama. He is the author of Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance during the Great Depression (1989) and From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890–1967 (2000) and the coauthor, with Linda Royster Beito, of T. R. M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer (2018). He also edited The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society (2002). His forthcoming books include The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (2023) and an edited collection of Rose Wilder Lane’s articles for the Pittsburgh Courier, an African American Newspaper.