http://www.mises.org/journals/lf/1979/1979_05-06.pdf

In the fall of 1981 while in college, I fell hard for the music of George Gershwin thanks to my roommate’s LP of the terrific Manhattan soundtrack. I think I caught the movie while on Christmas break thereafter, on cable. While on spring break several months later, I met Rothbard at a dinner in Manhattan at which he spoke (having met him also while in high school, at a Cato Institute seminar Dartmouth), and discussed the effect his review of Manhattan had on me as a young cultural historian (masquerading in those years, as it happened, as an economics major). Since he and I shared with Woody Allen a passion for old 1920s/1930s pop culture – W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, Gershwin and Dixieland jazz, for merest starters – we found much common ground.

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