On my journey to libertarianism, many people have influenced me.   But I owe one person a special mention.  Howard Katz was an author and publisher of an investment newsletter.  He wrote a few books in the '70's.    One book of his I happened to pick up around 20 years ago was "The Warmongers".  The book was part history lesson and part economics lesson.  It was there where I first saw the name, Murray Rothbard.  From there, a whole new world was opened up to me.

Mr. Katz's blog, thegoldspeculator.blogspot.com, hadn't been updated in a while.  Looking around the internet, I unfortunately learned of his passing.  He was born in Rhode Island, earned a Math degree at Harvard and most recently settled in New Hampshire.  He was a little too much of a Randroid for me, especially with his defense of Israel.  But his revisionist views on U.S. economic history eclipsed all that.  One of his best articles was "How the Commies Stole Thanksgiving". 

Thanks Howard.