![]() ![]() ![]() No less a figure than Milton Friedman had extolled Buchanan’s potential. Thirty-seven-year-old James McGill Buchanan liked to call himself a Tennessee country boy. On his desk was a proposal, written by the man he had recently appointed chair of the economics department at UVA. Even the name of this plan, “massive resistance,” made his gentlemanly Virginia sound like Mississippi.Ĭover of Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean Darden, who earlier in his career had been the governor, could barely stand to contemplate the damage such a rash move would inflict. Some extremists called for ending public education entirely. Board of Education ruling, calling for the dismantling of segregation in public schools with “all deliberate speed.” In Virginia, outraged state officials responded with legislation to force the closure of any school that planned to comply. The previous year, the US Supreme Court had issued its second Brown v. (Getty Images)įind out more about James McGill Buchanan and his tremendous influence on today’s politics by reading our Q&A with author Nancy MacLean.Īs 1956 drew to a close, Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr., the president of the University of Virginia, feared for the future of his beloved state. Professor James McGill Buchanan, of George Mason University, talks on the telephone soon after it was announced that he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics. ![]()
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