Her books helped me a lot in political arguments during the late 1960s and early 1970s, regarding capitalism, just as my reading of history and military history, helped me defend a strong national defense, and fighting a better war in Vietnam, at the time.
Yes... it was just a whole new way of looking at things. For the longest time I’d accepted that there were only two sides: the Liberals and the Christian right. I knew I didn’t fit in with either bunch, and it was confusing for a while.