Winner 2017 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society
Finalist 2017 Hayek Prize, The Manhattan Institute
One of Bloomberg View’s Great History Books of 2016
Thomas Leonard has crafted an elegant, original, and cleverly argued account of core progressive ideas. Illiberal Reformers is deeply researched, and far ranging in the deployment of primary sources. The book is a major achievement.
– Desmond King, University of Oxford