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James Bond and the killer bag lady
Mark Ames and Alexander Zaitchik, Salon
Atlas Shrugged |
If his name was no longer synonymous with the all-American vacation, [Nick] Deak emerged during the 1970s as a hero in an emergent libertarian gold-bug subculture. As Doomsday-obsessed gold hoarders built financial bomb shelters in the shadow of stagflation, Deak emerged as among the first proto-Libertarian gurus. A fawning profile in Reason magazine compared Deak to “Midas Mulligan or any other character ever conceived of by Ayn Rand.”
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