Anne Heller - Ayn Rand and the World She Made

“LSD steps up our voltage”:Quoted in Radicals for Capitalism , p. 280.

editing a quasi-religious libertarian magazine: Radicals for Capitalism , p. 276.

“Whenever I wrote anything”:Interview with Thaddeus Ashby, conducted by Wendy de Weese, June 20, 2005.

she attended the awards ceremony and enjoyed herself:Author interview with JKT, May 21, 2004.

three million copies in print: EOWTL , p. 143. Oddly, in spite of the fact that the cold war was at its height and that two years earlier Khrushchev had disclosed the mass killings committed by Stalin at about the time WTL had first been published, the reissued novel attracted little attention. The hardback edition seems to have been reviewed only in the Miami Herald and the Detroit Jewish News (EOWTL , p. 151).

advertising reply card for NBI:The reply card was the brainstorm of Robert Hessen, at that time a graduate student at Columbia University and part-time employee of NBI. Hessen recalls one evening in 1961 or 1962 when AR and NB assembled the Collective and a few other Objectivists to bawl them out for not contributing enough to the advancement of AR’s philosophy. They named Hessen as an example to the contrary, praising his ideas for the reply card, the book service, and the soon-to-be-launched tape transcription service; “I was mortified.” Author interview with Robert Hessen, October 17, 2007.

most expensive paperback ever sold: TPOAR , p. 299.

NAL republished Anthem: The NAL edition of Anthem was published in September 1961. By late 1963, there were five hundred thousand copies of Anthem in print (“Objectivist Calendar,” TON , January 1962 and November 1963, pp. 1, 41).

Participants arrived once a week:Author interview with Florence Hirschfeld, Jonathan Hirschfeld, and EK, August 25, 2006.

each paying half the New York rate:NBI flyer, September 1964, courtesy of Lee Clifford.

gave readings of Rand’s plays:“Objectivist Calendar,” TON , October 1963 and May 1965, p. 22.

wrote proudly of having aided Rand’s transformation: MYWAR , p. 237.

it was the buzz and growing influence:http://www.solopassion.com/node/1257.

“infinitely more rational”:BBTBI.

“whole enormous response to

Nathan”:http://www.solopassion.com/node/1257.

“I hate bitterness”: MYWAR , p. 251.

“I’m inclined to think, in the end, no”:Author interview with NB, May 5, 2004.

“It does not matter that only a few in each generation”:Introduction to TF , p. xii.

Yale Law School’s prestigious Challenge series:The lecture took place on February 17, 1960.

In a car on the way to New Haven: TPOAR , p. 315.

the New Haven Symphony Orchestra:“Down with Altruism,” Time , February 29, 1960.

thought of Yale as a breeding ground for liberals:Author interview with Robert Hessen, October 17, 2007; TPOAR , p. 315.

the overflow was so great:From an unpublished 1984 tribute to AR by Larry Scott, who was a Yale student at the time of AR’s speech; courtesy of MSC.

“Young man: the janitors!”: TPOAR , p. 316.

several times interrupted by applause:Ed Barthelmes, “First mailed copy” for Time article (“Personal newspaper clippings 1916–1960,” Isabel Paterson Papers, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, box 6).

“Do not confuse altruism”:“Faith and Force: Destroyers of the Modern World,” reprinted in Philosophy: Who Needs It (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1982).

a revealing anecdote:Ed Barthelmes, “First mailed copy” for Time article.

she said that she hated speaking:Author correspondence with BB, June 17, 2008.

“As an advocate of reason, freedom”:The speech, delivered at the Ford Hall Forum on March 26, 1961, was titled “The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age;” a version appears in The Voice of Reason , Leonard Peikoff, ed. (New York: New American Library, 1989); quote is from AR , p. 94.

“radical for capitalism”:“Conservatism: An Obituary” was delivered at Princeton University on December 7, 1960, and was reprinted in Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal .

nearly twice as many students:“Ayn Rand as a Public Speaker.”

addressed an overflow audience in Ferris Booth Hall:The speech was “Faith and Force: Destroyers of the Modern World,” delivered at Columbia University, May 5, 1960.

“That’s when I was struck”:Unpublished taped interview of Bertha Krantz by BB, dated September 20, 1983.

at the University of Michigan:On May, 15, 1961, the University of Michigan filmed a postlecture interview with AR on the subject of “The New Intellectual.” “The man who defines the basic, fundamental ideas of a culture is the man who determines history,” she told the interviewer, a professor of philosophy.

Boston University, Brown, Purdue:“Ayn Rand as a Public Speaker.”

she gave a lecture entitled “The Objectivist Ethics”:AR gave this lecture at the University of Wisconsin on February 9, 1961. (Quotes are from TVOS , pp. 13–39.)

from as far away as Africa: 100 Voices , Frances Smith, president of the Ford Hall Forum, p. 222.

even the night before:Author correspondence with BB, June 27, 2008.

exchange ideas, news, and gossip:Author interview with Molly Hays, February 29, 2004.

on WBAI-FM:Together and separately, AR and NB taped radio programs for WBAI from 1961 to 1965. From 1965 to 1969, AR had a regular biweekly program of her own.

turned young adversaries into grudging admirers:“I’ve seen audiences start booing and end up cheering,” said LP; AR:SOL , DVD.

“Abortion is a moral right”:AR, “Of Living Death,” speech given at the Ford Hall Forum, December 8, 1968, reprinted in The Objectivist , September—November 1968, p. 534.

primarily because its purpose:May 4, 1946 ( JOAR , p. 479).

She wasn’t convinced: MYWAR , p. 211.

composing essays was child’s play:Harry Binswanger, “Recollections of Ayn Rand.”

clarity and logic: MYWAR , p. 297.

warns against defining national emergencies too broadly:Ayn Rand, “The Ethics of Emergencies,” TON , February 1963; reprinted in TVOS , p. 49.

“for the gold standard’s inherent price stability”: The Age of Turbulence , p. 481.

she endorsed Goldwater: TON , October 1963 and March, July, September, and October 1964.

helped to found the club and magazine:Author interview with JKT, May 21, 2004.

famous Goldwater rally:This took place on May 12, 1964.

“It made his points in his voice”:Unpublished taped interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.