Anne Heller - Ayn Rand and the World She Made

“my manifesto, my profession of faith”:Unpublished letter to Newman Flower, January 2, 1938 (quoted in EOA , p. 71).

had best-seller stamped all over it: Words & Faces , p. 261.

“contextual absolutism” and “contextualism”:Rand also used the word opsolitism to describe her philosophy in a 1961 speech at the University of Michigan.

“showed us how to live without truth”:Norman Podhoretz, “Intellectuals and Writers, Then and Now,” Partisan Review , Fall 2002 (vol. 69, no. 4), pp. 507–40.

“One word leads to another!”:“Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged,” recorded speech by BB, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C., October 6, 2007.

the last recorded concerto of Richard Halley:Halley’s Fifth Concerto was inspired by love songs from Boris Godunov, according to follower Howard Odzer (100 Voices , Howard Odzer, p. 191–92).

“drab” prose style and core ideas: Words & Faces , p. 262.

“Nobody’s going to read that [speech]”:BC’s oral history interview on file at the Columbia University Oral History Project archives (number 719, p. 950.)

to pay for the additional paper:Unpublished letter to AR from BC, May 9, 1957, Bennett Cerf Collection, Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 57.

“an obsession with her”: Words & Faces , p. 261.

“They were putting a great deal [of money]”:Unpublished taped interview with Bertha Krantz, conducted by BB, September 20, 1983.

“a slave to the image she built”:Unpublished taped interview with Bertha Krantz, conducted by BB, September 20, 1983.

A few months before Atlas Shrugged: BCs oral history interview, p. 948.

“Metaphysics: objective reality”: TPOAR , p. 294.

presented packages to Rand: TPOAR , p. 295.

“This is John Galt”: TPOAR , p. 296.

“That’s us!”: TPOAR , p. 294.

old nemesis from the 1930s, Granville Hicks:By 1957, Hicks had left the Communist Party. In the Times , he was identified as a literary consultant to The New Leader , a biweekly magazine published by the American Labor Conference on International Affairs.

“howl” by a harpy:Granville Hicks, “A Parable of Buried Talents,” NYT , October 13, 1957, p. 266.

“where it’s equally easy to hate both sides”:Earl P. Brown, “From the U.S.A.,” Washington Post , October 13, 1957, p. E6.

compared her ideas on mysticism to those of Hitler:Earl Wagenknecht, “As Thriller or Parable, Novel Is Absorbing,” Chicago Daily Tribune , October 13, 1957, p. B1.

“Is it a novel? Is it a nightmare?”:“The Solid-Gold Dollar Sign,” Time , October 14, 1957.

“display of grotesque eccentricity”:Robert R. Kirsch, “The Book Report,” Los Angeles Times , October 15, 1957, p. B5.

“the globe’s two billion or so incompetents”:Donald Malcolm, “The New Rand Atlas,” The New Yorker , October 26, 1957, pp. 194–96.

“crackbrained ratiocination”:“Come the Revolution,” Atlantic Monthly , November 1957, pp. 249–50.

ambition and intellectual intensity:John Chamberlain, “Ayn Rand’s Political Parable and Thundering Melodrama,” New York Herald Tribune , October 15, 1957, section 6, p. 1.

“Ayn Rand is destined to rank in history”: TPOAR , p. 298.

“I am now able to say it”:Unpublished letter to AR from William C. Mullendore, William C. Mullendore Papers, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, Subject Series, box 23, folder “Ayn Rand.”

“a cogent analysis of the evils”:Unpublished letter from LVM, January 23, 1958, courtesy of Bettina Bien Greaves.

“No one writes about the bureaucrats the way Ayn Rand does”:Author interview with Bettina Bien Greaves, December 22, 2006.

“we thought that we were going to be hooked”:BC’s oral history interview, p. 945.

partly in an attempt:“Godless Capitalism,” pp. 359–85.

“To a gas chamber—go!”:Whittaker Chambers, “Big Sister Is Watching You,” National Review , December 28, 1957, p. 120.

“is not, and by its essential nature cannot conceivably be”:Whittaker Chambers, Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers’ Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr. , 1969, pp. 227–28, cited in “Godless Capitalism,” p. 375.

She had expected attacks:AR claimed never to have read the Whittaker Chambers review of AS (LOAR , p. 572) but to have been told about it by others.

Anguished, she asked Barbara: TPOAR , p. 304.

285 “even earlier than I imagined”: MYWAR , p. 203.

Paterson sent an indignant letter: The Woman and the Dynamo , p. 351.

if so, she refused to go:Author interview with WFB, June 12, 2006.

lampooned her:William F. Buckley, Jr., Getting It Right (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2003).

“I believe she died under the impression”:Author interview with WFB, June 12, 2006.

thought that he had been drinking: MYWAR , p. 201.

“She was a valiant human being”:Author interview with WFB, June 12, 2006.

confused its author’s increasingly authoritarian personality: TPOAR , p. 302.

“To hear a woman”:“Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged .“

“Her personal bitterness was at odds with her philosophy”:“An Interview with Barbara Branden,” p. 8.

ascended to number five:“Best Seller List,” NYT Book Review , October 27, 1957, p. 4.

Five years after its first printing:TON, December 1962 (vol. 1, no. 12), p. 47.

150,000 copies a year:Author correspondence with Richard Ralston, publishing manager of ARI, March 3, 2004.

the intelligent common man:Author interview with JKT, May 21, 2004.

“the largely abandoned class”:Claudia Roth Pierpont, “Twilight of the Goddess,” The New Yorker , July 24, 1995, p. 76.

Other notes identify:JOAR, pp. 706–716.

She would resume musing:“Two Possible Books,” November 30, 1957, and February 10, 1959 ( JOAR , pp. 706–11).

organized a letter-writing campaign:“In and Out of Books: Class of ‘43,” p. 136.

“We were all strongly encouraged”:Author interview with EK, NB’s sister, on July 21, 2006.

wrote to The New York Times: “Letters to the Editor,” NYT , November 3, 1957, p. 283.

lacked compassion and “proceeds from hate”:Patricia Donegan, “A Point of View,” Commonweal , November 8, 1957, p. 156.

he pointed out:“Communications,” Commonweal , December 20, 1957, p. 313.

Leonard Peikoff, Daryn Kent, and … John Chamberlain:“Letters to the Editor,” National Review , January 18, 1958, p. 71.