foreign relief programs for the American Federation of Labor, focusing her efforts on keeping communists out of the American labor movement. She maintained her close relationship with Alexander Kerensky and other Russians she had befriended through the years. La Follette returned to editing in the 1950s when she and a number of old colleagues, including John Chamberlain and Henry Hazlitt produced a new version of The Freeman. In her final editorial effort she became the founding managing editor of the magazine William F. Buckley Jr. founded in 1955, The National Review. She retired from this post in 1959 at the age of sixty-six. Still politically active in the 1960s, she was one of the founders of the New York Conservative Party. She ran for Congress in 1964 and lost. In her 2004 book, Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary: Completing the Twentieth Century, Susan Ware described the many intellectual gifts that made La Follette such a force among the New York intelligencia for so many decades. La Follette was "a rigorous opponent of government intervention. She was a very beautiful woman, with a hilarious sense of humor, a grammatical stickler ... a feminist ... generous and warm-hearted, recalled William F. Buckley Jr., who knew her in later years." California In the 1970s, La Follette sold her Bucks County farm and left the Chelsea Hotel and New York City. She returned to the West Coast, settling in Palo Alto, not far from the Stanford University campus. She is interred in Colfax, Washington with other family members. See also Georgism Individualist feminism Libertarian conservatism Libertarianism in the United States References Further reading External links 1893 births 1983 deaths 20th-century American historians American art historians American art writers American editors American feminist writers American libertarians American magazine editors American political writers American women historians American women journalists Conservative Party of New York State politicians Individualist feminists La Follette family Libertarian theorists Managing editors People from Bucks County, Pennsylvania Journalists from New York City People from Pullman, Washington Women art historians 20th-century American women writers Historians from Pennsylvania Historians from New York (state) Women magazine editors People from Mount Pleasant (Washington, D.C.) American anti-communists Historians from Washington (state)