Books by Glory M. Liu
Adam Smith's America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
by Glory M. Liu
Just as the Nazis appropriated the swastika from a Sanskrit symbol for well-being and changed its meaning forever, so some intellectuals' work has been appropriated by others and turned into whatever subsequent generations wanted it to be. Adam Smith's America is by Glory Liu, a lecturer in Social Studies at Harvard, and looks at how this happened to Adam Smith, an 18th-century moral philosophy professor from Glasgow who, amongst other things, worked as a customs officer and wrote a book called The Wealth of Nations.
