Two Lucky People
Memoirs
Two Lucky People
Memoirs
The story of Rose and Milton Friedman’s incredible lives and influential work told in their own words, now with a new foreword by Sebastian Edwards.
In Two Lucky People, Rose and Milton Friedman provide a memorable and lively account of their lives, the people they knew, and the work they shared. Their involvement with world leaders and many of this century's most important public policy issues moves their memoir beyond the merely personal and makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in the history of twentieth-century ideas.
This new edition of the Friedmans’ jointly authored memoir includes a foreword by economist Sebastian Edwards, the Henry Ford II Professor of International Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1. How We Met
2. Early Years—Rose
3. Early Years—Milton
4. From Meeting to Marriage, 1932–38
5. Beginning Married Life
6. Victim of Campus Politics
7. Washington, 1941–43
8. War Years in New York, 1943–45
9. Minnesota
10. Settling In at Chicago
11. Our Summers, 1948–80
12. An Autumn in Paris, 1950
13. The University of Chicago
14. The Department of Economics
15. Teaching
16. Scholarly Work
17. Our First Year Abroad
18. Assignment in India
19. Center for Advanced Study, 1957–58
20. Our Wanderjahr, 1962–63
21. Participating in the Public-Policy Debate
22. The Goldwater Campaign, and New York, 1963–65
23. Adviser to Presidents Nixon and Reagan
24. Chile
25. Travels and Travails
26. The Nobel Award
27. Israel
28. Free to Choose
29. Filming in Eastern Europe
30. China
31. Life after Retirement
Epilogue
Appendix A. Chapter 24 (Chile): Documents
Appendix B. Chapter 28 (Free to Choose): Documents
Appendix C. Chapter 30 (China): Documents
Notes
Bibliography
Index