I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful."
Nozick went to Columbia University, where, still a leftist, he founded a chapter of the Student League for Industrial Democracy (in 1962 it became Students for a Democratic Society). He received his B.A. in 1959. On 15 August of that year he married Barbara Claire Fierer, a teacher. They had two children: Emily Sarah and David Joshua.
Nozick began graduate school at Princeton University in the fall. Bruce Goldberg, a graduate of the City College of New York, also entered the Princeton philosophy program in 1959, and he and Nozick became friends. Goldberg--an analytic philosopher who went on to teach at the University of Illinois, Cornell University, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and died in 1999--had recently been converted to libertarianism by followers of Ayn Rand and was an enthusiastic proselytizer for that point of view.
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