Anne Heller - Ayn Rand and the World She Made

“An abstract theory”: W1AR , pp. 107-8.

“Do not underestimate”:Letter to Henry Blanke, December 6, 1945 (LOAR , p. 247).

Literary Guild issued its own edition:Letters to Ross Baker of Bobbs-Merrill, December 18, 1943, and December 11, 1945 (LOAR , pp. 107, 249); author correspondence with Becky Cape, archivist for the Literary Guild, August 10, 2006.

without a guarantee:Letter to Walter Hurley, January 23, 1944 (LOAR , p. 121).

the hand-drawn … illustrations:The illustrations were created by a well-known commercial artist named F. O. Godwin.

“The artist has done a wonderful job”:Letter to MS, December 2, 1945 (LOAR , p. 240).

Dominique is a passable replica of Rand:See The Illustrated “Fountainhead” (Irvine, Calif.: ARI, 1998), p. 18.

loved the luminous rationality: AS , p. 54.

assigned her to a silly gangster movie:Project-specific file cards listing scripts AR worked on and start and completion dates (Hal Wallis Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, box 95).

stood for man’s greatness:January 2, 1946 ( JOAR , pp. 312–26).

“The responsibility of making [this] picture: JOAR , p. 312.

“If there is such a thing as an average man”:Letter to M. Curtiss, November 30, 1945 (LOAR , p. 237).

who had returned to his teaching post: American Prometheus , p. 351.

endorsed her interpretation of Germany’s failure: TPOAR , p. 193.

and told her, thrillingly:January 19, 1946 ( JOAR , p. 342).

found Oppenheimer enormously intelligent:January 15, 1946 ( JOAR , p. 329).

model for the character of Dr. Robert Stadler:BBTBI.

borrowed the details of his office: TPOAR , p. 193.

“Man can harness the universe”:January 19, 1946 ( JOAR , p. 344).

she had completed her outline:Editor’s note ( JOAR , p. 311).

190 on the verge of filming its own movie:According to David Harriman, editor of JOAR , Wallis knew about the MGM project from the beginning ( JOAR , p. 311). The MGM film, The Beginning or the End , was released in 1947 and criticized for its muddled history and sentimental subplots.

She was furious: TPOAR , p. 193.

she figured out:“Paramount Studio Tour.”

She wrote a second memo:Letter to Hal Wallis, March 19, 1946 (LOAR , p. 263).

left the studio a week later:Dates courtesy of project-specific file cards and “Multiple Picture Contract with Ayn Rand,” dated July 5, 1944, both from Hal Wallis Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, box 95.

drafted its first chapter:Ayn Rand Papers, LOC, box 6, folder 1.

a prolonged tantrum:Beverly Fields, “Ayn Rand Rants for 1,168 Pages.”

“Whatever pride of person I hold”: AS , pp. 235–36.

“I’ll give you a hint”: AS , p. 188.

“a raw commodity”: A People’s Tragedy , p. 73.

The novel is full of detailed parallels:Author interview with Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, July 5, 2005.

“This [Galt’s face] was the world”: AS , p. 643.

a railroad map above her desk:Lewis Nichols, “Talk with Ayn Rand,” NYT , October 13, 1957, p. 272.

Rand wrote hundreds of pages:Editor’s note, JOAR , p. 390.

She was setting out, she wrote, to show:January 1, 1945 ( JOAR , p. 394).

John Galt, like Howard Roark:BBTBI.

was basing Dagny Taggart:BBTBI.

“hunger for her own kind”:April 14, 1946 ( JOAR , p. 417).

based on this view of O’Connor:January 1, 1945 ( JOAR , p. 398).

“the sensitive, poetic kind of writer”:April 13, 1946 ( JOAR , p. 411).

“she cannot reach her enemies”:April 11, 1946, to April 17, 1946 ( JOAR , pp. 410–18).

“I think I represent”:May 4, 1946 ( JOAR , p. 480).

had given a dinner party in her

honor:BBTBI.

“I have written such a book”:Leonard Read, foreword to the Caxton Press edition of Anthem , originally published in July 1953 (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton, 2004), p. 8.

had already issued:John Blundell, “Liberty at Its Nadir: Interview with Leonard Liggio,” Liberty , July 2004 (vol. 18, no. 7).

ninety-eight-page booklet:James Howard, “Nightshirt Fringe Applauds Ayn Rand’s Ten-Year-Old Book,” PM , October 22, 1947.

appeared in July 1946:“Author’s Foreword” to Pamphleteer’s edition of Anthem , written in April 1946 (copy of the first printing of Anthem , Bennett A. Cerf Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, box 436; letter to Walt Disney, September 5, 1946 [LOAR , p. 317]).

sold for a dollar a copy:Unpublished letter from Leonard Read to Ann Watkins, April 10, 1946/7 [two dates on letter, one a typo] (A. Watkins Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 152).

U.S. purveyor of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion:”Nightshirt Fringe.” The reporter, and PM , unfairly used the connection to discredit AR and Anthem .

“What can be loved”: Thus Spoke Zarathustra , pp. 14–15.

“Ayn Rand is a phenomenon”:Quoted in EOA , p. 58.

the parent of The Fountainhead: Letter to Henry Blanke, September 5, 1946 (LOAR , p. 315).

Stanwyck wasn’t interested:Letter to Barbara Stanwyck, September 7, 1946 (LOAR , pp. 317–18).

Wallis turned it down:“Paramount Studio Tour.”

With the rumored silent backing:Robert Mayhew, Ayn Rand and “Song of Russia” (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2005), p. 78.

“the rising tide” of Communism:Motion Picture Alliance “Statement of Principles,” AMPTP Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, box 11, MPA folder. The MPA was organized in February 1944; Rand joined in the summer of 1944, as soon as it was clear that she was going to remain in Hollywood.

Members met weekly at MGM: An Oral History with Robert M. W. Vogel , interviewed by Barbara Hall, Beverly Hills, Calif.: Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Oral History Program, 1991.

Rand sat on the MPA executive board:Motion Picture Alliance records, Hedda Hopper Collection, Margaret Herrick Library.

The Vigil: “Textbook of Americanism,” 1946; Motion Picture Alliance Records.

“Fascist anti-Semites!”:After the end of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, American opponents of the Soviet Union were accused of being pro-Hitler, i.e., pro-Fascist and anti-Semitic (“Emergency Committee of Hollywood Guilds and Unions Announcement,” Hollywood Reporter , June 23, 1944; “To the Membership of the Motion Picture Alliance,” Hollywood Reporter , June 27, 1944; James Kevin McGuinness, “Double Cross in Hollywood,” The New Leader , July 15, 1944, p. 119; Morrie Ryskind, “A Reply to Elmer Rice about the MPAPAI,” The New Leader , December 23, 1944.)