Anne Heller - Ayn Rand and the World She Made

canceling subscriptions to Time: 100 Voices , Kathleen Nickerson, p. 181.

Her life’s mission to create:December 15, 1960 ( JOAR , p. 704).

“She had left Galt’s Gulch”:“Ayn Rand and Her Movement,” p. 7.

“Ayn had disappeared into [the] alternate reality”: MYWAR , p. 195.

“Something was gone”:“Interview with Nathaniel Branden,” p. 6.

“What kind of world is this?”: MYWAR , p. 205.

“I felt like my job was to protect her”:Author interview with NB, May 5, 2004.

“one part of my destiny”: MYWAR , p. 194.

“With my lecture course”:Author interview with NB, May 5, 2004.

she didn’t want to give her enemies an opportunity:Author interview with Robert Hessen, October 17, 2007.

289 Bennett Cerf and Hiram Haydn pled a shortage of time:Unpublished taped interview of Bertha Krantz by BB, dated September 20, 1983.

mentioned the author’s name in the first line of copy:Circular advertising NB’s first lecture series, Hiram Haydn correspondence, Bennett Cerf Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 436.

“she-messiah”:“Born Eccentric,” Newsweek , March 27, 1961.

“We [are] like Siamese twins”: MYWAR , pp. 121-22.

“My personal life is a postscript to my novels”:“About the Author,” AS , p. 107.

“hangers-on,” “brownnosers”:From BC’s oral history interview on file at the Columbia University Oral History Project archives, number 719, conducted by Mary R. Hawkins, 1971, pp. 903–952.

“the very whining, toadying quality”: Words & Faces , p. 258.

“If anyone can pick a single rational flaw”:Mike Wallace, “Should the Strong Inherit the Earth?” NYP , December 9, 1957, ghosted by Edith Efron.

Barbara and Nathaniel persuaded her:Author correspondence with BB, June 27, 2008.

gave a lecture called “Faith and Force”:“Ayn Rand as a Public Speaker.”

At Brooklyn College:In April 1958; “Ayn Rand as a Public Speaker.”

“I was awed by the power”: 100 Voices , Fred Feingersh, p. 176.

“Why Human Beings Repress and Drive Underground”:NBI flyer, September 1964, courtesy of Lee Clifford.

“Lectures on Objectivism”:Advertisement, NYT , October 7, 1962, p. X4.

attendance rose steadily: MYWAR , p. 206.

During the question periods: TPOAR , p. 329.

“every word, every sentence was magic”:“Interview with Henry Mark Holzer,” p. 6.

enlisted Alan Greenspan: TPOAR , p. 307.

By popular demand: 100 Voices , Kathleen Nickerson, p. 181. AR’s lectures on plot, theme, characterization, and style were recorded, transcribed, edited, and, in 2000, published as The Art of Fiction .

began in early 1958: 100 Voices , Larry Abrams, p. 194.

For six months: 100 Voices , Larry Abrams, footnote, p. 194.

if self-referential:In another example of her tendency toward self-reference, during an NBI question-and-answer period she mentioned that her favorite painting was Salvador Dalí’s Crucifixion . Students, who all knew that she was an atheist, were confused. She explained that the Christ in the painting reminded her of Galt on the torture device at the end of AS (100 Voices , Allan Gotthelf, p. 330).

critique the very passages: TPOAR , p. 278; 100 Voices , Kathleen Nickerson, p. 183.

“Good Copy”:“Good Copy” appears in TEAR , p. 56.

“she began to shout in outrage”: TPOAR , p. 278.

295 “a philosophy for living on earth”:“Philosophy: Who Needs It,” The Ayn Rand Letter , January 14, 1974 (vol. 3, no. 8), p. 284.

while researching a New York newspaper interview:This was the NYP interview in which AR suggested that she was the world’s most creative philosopher. At that time, Wallace had not yet met or talked to her.

“spouting these strange ideas”:Author interview with Al Ramrus, March 1, 2007.

Two days later, along came:Author correspondence with Al Ramrus, March 19, 2007.

“was hugely impressed”:Author interview with Al Ramrus, March 1, 2007.

“was inspiring and, by example, empowering”:Author correspondence with Al Ramrus, March 14, 2007.

joined the circle surrounding Rand:Author interview with Al Ramrus, March 1, 2007.

obtained early copies of Atlas Shrugged: OHP interview with Robert Hessen, November 10, 2004.

“since [Ayn’s followers] all have”:Unpublished letter from MR to Richard Cornuelle, August 11, 1954, quoted in Radicals for Capitalism , p. 261.

“the greatest novel ever written”:Unpublished letter from MR to AR, October 3, 1957, copy courtesy of Justin Raimondo.

He also entered into a course of psychotherapy with Branden:“Ayn Rand and Her Movement,” pp. 3, 8.

On the basis of such assurances:Unpublished letter from MR to NB, July 15, 1958, courtesy of Justin Raimondo.

considered him to be an established genius: MYWAR , p. 97.

“Nathan was everybody’s therapist”:“Ayn Rand and Her Movement,” pp. 7, 8.

would get one in 1973:In 1973, NB received his Ph.D. in psychology from the unaccredited California Graduate Institute. In an interview, NB explained that, once settled in California, he opted to obtain a California license to practice marriage and family counseling rather than apply for the “super, super, super tough” license to practice psychotherapy. As a result, he said, he cannot refer to himself in print as a psychologist; “The Liberty Interview: Nathaniel Branden Speaks,” Liberty , September 1999 (vol. 13, no. 9), pp. 41–42.

He had applied for:Jeff Walker, The Ayn Rand Cult (Chicago: Open Court, 1999), p. 156.

obtain certification in New Jersey:Unpublished letter from MR to Kenneth Templeton, September 3, 1958, courtesy of Justin Raimondo; The Ayn Rand Cult , pp. 156–58; “The Liberty Interview: Nathaniel Branden Speaks,” p. 41.

pressure on Rothbard intensified:Murray Rothbard, “My Break with Nathaniel Branden and the Rand Cult,” Liberty , September 1989, p. 30; An Enemy of the State , pp. 125–26.

Educational events were augmented:“My Break with Nathaniel Branden and the Rand Cult,” p. 27; 100 Voices , Howard Odzer, p. 191.

“Why is it you don’t see us more often?”:“My Break with Nathaniel Branden and the Rand Cult,” p. 29.

“Those parties were very hierarchical”:Author interview with Ed Nash, January 6, 2005.

298 “They were absolutely a nightmare”:Author interview with BB, December 16, 2005.