Chodorov graduated from Columbia University in 1907, and spent the next 30 years working in a variety of jobs, including a stint as an advertising representative and running a clothing factory. Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ...
Besides working in various fields, Chodorov read widely in the literature of liberty, and was particularly impressed by the work of Henry David Thoreau, Albert Jay Nock, and Henry George. By the time he was offered, and accepted, the directorship of the Henry George School of Social Science in 1937, he counted himself firmly within the classical liberal tradition.
For the first time—at the age of 50—his position afforded him an opportunity to write and speak widely on the issues of the day and to spread the anti-statist gospel. He and his students started a school publication, The Freeman.[1]
Frank was firmly convinced, though it was obviously a sentiment that he could not prove, that people were either born individualists or they were not, and hence it would be impossible to generate a mass movement of libertarians by any sort of short-cut demagoguery.
Frank's convictions on voting is but one example of the reason that he was sui generis, of the reason that he stood out, among the crowd of would-be libertarians and free-marketeers, like a blaze of radiant light in a dismal swamp.
Frank moved in a world of bland and phony opportunists, of men who never gave him anything like his due, and yet he moved among them as one who, considering personal integrity the birthright of man, expected no less from those around him.
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