At Kennedy Airport: TPOAR, p. 374.
striking resemblance: Author interview with EK, August 25, 2006.
whispered to Rand: TPOAR, p. 374.
They had expected a “rich, noble lady”: 100 Voices, Eleanora Drobysheva, p. 10.
“What good is political freedom to me?”: Author interview with EK, August 25, 2006.
“It was the altruism of our entire family”: 100 Voices, Eleanora Drobysheva, p. 9.
“But you are a rich and famous person!”: Author interview with EK, August 25, 2006.
“[My sister] had just artificially
constructed”: 100 Voices, Eleanora Drobysheva, p. 4.
“fake” and “lacking in talent”: 100 Voices, Eleanora Drobysheva, p. 5.
Nora called Rand: 100 Voices, Eleanora Drobysheva, p. 9.
She did contact her lawyer: 100 Voices, Evva Pryor of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin & Winick, p. 526.
Nor, as it turned out, did Nora wish to: Probate Proceedings, “Report of Guardian Ad Litem” November 16, 1983, p. 6.
When Nora and Fedor were gone: Author interview with EK, August 25, 2006.
“when I liked everything about [my sister]”: 100 Voices, Eleanora Drobysheva, pp. 10–13.
Time noted: “The Chairman’s Favorite Author,” Time, September 30, 1974.
397 during one of their semimonthly dinners: Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, October 7, 2007.
he showed Mitchell a copy of an antitrust article: The Age of Turbulence, p. 97; “The Assault on Integrity,” TON, August 1963, pp. 31–32.
She had drawn him from a world of empiricism: The Age of Turbulence, pp. 52–53.
The revival stirred unusual interest: Allen McCauley, “Ayn Rand, a Radical for True Capitalism,” Bergen County Record, February 22, 1973.
“[Penthouse Legend] is the kind of play”: Clive Barnes, “Stage: ‘Penthouse Legend,’ a Courtroom Drama,” NYT, February 23, 1973, p. 20.
It closed after thirty performances: “Closing the Record Book on 1972–1973,” NYT, Arts & Leisure, July 1, 1973, p. 3.
a line, or a few lines: The issue in dispute is whether AR’s anger about the changes in her dialogue was justified, or even reasonable.
“One mistake was all it took”: Taped, unpublished interview with Phillip and Kay Nolte Smith by journalist JW in preparation for a CBC special report on the tenth anniversary of AR’s death, entitled “Ideas: The Legacy of AR” (1992).
“She was relentless in pursuit”: TPOAR, p. 387.
“visual distortions”: “Art and Sense of Life,” The Objectivist, March 1966, p. 38.
“By then, there was something almost reckless”: TPOAR, p. 387.
She talked about “denouncing” them: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 23, 1983.
Her behavior with him shocked and upset the Kalbermans: Author interview with EK, July 21, 2006.
She viewed his rebellion: OHP, Robert Hessen, November 10, 2004.
On the advice of her secretary: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
“Leonard was destroyed”: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
For years, no producer: 100 Voices, Perry Knowlton, p. 315.
They held a press conference: “On His Own, Al Ruddy Readying Ayn Rand’s 1957 Atlas Shrugged,” Variety, May 17, 1972, p. 32.
It was during the Ruddy negotiations: Author interview with Daryn Kent-Duncan, April 25, 2005.
now she decided that she wanted Raquel Welch: 100 Voices, Michael Jaffe, p. 516.
the French actor Alain Delon: 100 Voices, Albert S. Ruddy, p. 510.
“She never had [an actor to play] Galt”: 100 Voices, Susan Ludel, p. 401.
He and Rand had begun working: Author interview with RBH, June 8, 2005.
her own soon-to-be best-selling novel: Hanta Yo: An American Saga (New York: Doubleday, 1979) became a 1984 ABC miniseries entitled The Mystic Warrior, adapted by Jeb Rosebrook.
Silliphant told her a harrowing story: Author interview with RBH, June 8, 2005.
One evening in the early 1970s: TPOAR, p. 366.
Those who met him afterward: Author interview with Martha and John Enright, July 6, 2006.
“But he hated California”: TPOAR, p. 384.
“Don’t humor him”: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
She assigned him papers: TPOAR, p. 365.
At one point she asked: Taped, unpublished interview with MS, conducted by BB, February 20, 1983.
“He never got kindness from her”: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
He apparently ordered beer: 100 Voices, Eloise Huggins, p. 440.
“If Ayn happened to open the door”: Author interview with Florence Hirschfeld, Jonathan Hirschfeld, and EK, August 25, 2006.
Eloise Huggins later disclosed to a confidante: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
“she [always] talk[ed] about”: 100 Voices, Eloise Huggins, p. 439.
“I [have] had Frank”: Letter to Gerald Loeb, August 5, 1944 (LOAR, p. 154).
One year, when Frank wasn’t strong enough: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
In the spring of 1979: Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (New York: New American Library, 1979).
Surprisingly, perhaps, she made an appearance: The Phil Donahue Show, broadcast from Madison Square Garden, May 1979.
She also posed for a Look magazine photograph: “Ayn Rand Returns,” Look, May 14, 1979, pp. 72–73.
“frightened, terribly frightened”: 100 Voices, Susan Ludel, p. 530.
“Don’t eat the food”: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
she slept beside him on rubber sheets: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
Frank O’Connor died on November 7, 1979: “Charles Francis O’Connor, Artist, Husband of the Writer Ayn Rand,” NYT, November 12, 1979, p. D11.
Rand asked Evva Pryor: 100 Voices, Evva Pryor, p. 526.
At the service, held in the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
David Kelley, a student of Leonard’s: David Kelley’s journal notes from November 12, 1979, courtesy of Kelley.
“I won’t have to suffer long”: Binswanger, “Recollections of Ayn Rand.”
“‘Mimi, talk to me about Frank’ “: Taped, unpublished interview with MS, January 20, 1983, courtesy of MSC.
She began to take antidepressant medication: 100 Voices, Harry Binswanger, p. 601.
Alan Greenspan stopped in to see her: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
A neighborhood rental agent: Author interview with Roberta Satro, July 20, 2006.
He “look[ed] like Cyrus”: “Recollections of Ayn Rand.”
406 Eickhoff tried to disguise her dismay: 100 Voices, Kathryn Eickhoff, p. 276.
So did Ed Snider: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
Rand gave her consent: “Recollections of Ayn Rand.”
“my reason is that ‘Objectivism’ “: Ayn Rand, The Objectivist Forum, February 1980, p. 1.
“Darling, if the Russians find out”: 100 Voices, Albert Ruddy, p. 50.
Speaking above Donahue’s attempts to mediate: The Phil Donahue Show, April 29, 1980.
“It was not 1981, it was 1950”: TPOAR, p. 399; Harry Binswanger, in an interview published in 100 Voices, says that AR gave him a differing account of the meeting but doesn’t specify the differences.
She made her last public appearance: Author interview with Molly Hays, February 29, 2004.
“Please, gentlemen, don’t photograph me”: Videotape of “The Sanction of the Victims,” November 18, 1981.
“But to win”: “The Sanction of the Victims,” The Objectivist Forum, April 1982, p. 9.
On New Year’s Day 1982: “Recollections of Ayn Rand.”
Mimi Sutton phoned: Taped, unpublished interview with MS, January 20, 1983, courtesy of MSC.
guards were posted: Author interview with David Kelley, January 25, 2005.
“It is not I who will die, it is the world that will end”: TPOAR, p. 403.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
BY AYN RAND
Anthem (England: Cassell, 1938; 50th anniversary edition, New York: Signet, 1995).
The Art of Fiction, Tore Boeckmann, ed. (New York: Plume, 2000).
The Art of Nonfiction, Robert Mayhew, ed. (New York: Plume, 2001).
Atlas Shrugged (New York: Random House, 1957; New York: New American Library, 1957; Plume, 1999).
Ayn Rand Answers, Robert Mayhew, ed. (New York: New American Library, 2005).
Ayn Rand’s Marginalia, Robert Mayhew, ed. (Irvine, Calif.: Second Renaissance Books, 1995).
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (New York: New American Library, 1966; New York: Signet, 1967).
The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction, Leonard Peikoff, ed. (New York: New American Library, 1984; New York: Signet, 1986).
For the New Intellectual (New York: Random House, 1961; New York: Signet, 1963).
The Fountainhead (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943; 25th anniversary edition, New York: New American Library, 1971; New York: Plume, 1994).
The Illustrated Fountainhead (Irvine, Calif.: Ayn Rand Institute, 1998).
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (New York: New American Library, 1979; New York: Meridian, 1990).
Journals of Ayn Rand, David Harriman, ed., Dina Garmong, trans. (New York: Dutton, 1997; New York: Plume, 1999).
Letters of Ayn Rand, Michael S. Berliner, ed., Dina Garmong, trans. (New York: Dutton, 1995; New York: Plume, 1999).
Philosophy: Who Needs It (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1982).
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (New York: Signet, 1971).
The Romantic Manifesto (New York: World Publishing Company, 1969; New York: Signet, 1971).
Russian Writings on Hollywood, Michael S. Berliner, ed., Dina Garmong, trans. (Los Angeles: Ayn Rand Institute Press, 1999).
The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought, Leonard Peikoff, ed. (New York: New American Library, 1989; New York: Meridian, 1990).
Three Plays (New York: Signet, 2005).
The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism (New York: Signet, 1963; New York: New American Library, 1964).
We the Living (New York: Macmillan, 1936; New York: Signet, 1995).
OBJECTIVIST (AND ASSOCIATED) PUBLICATIONS
The Ayn Rand Letter, 1971–75, Harry Binswanger, ed. (New York: The Ayn Rand Letter, Inc.; New Milford, Conn.: Second Renaissance Books, 1990).
Barbara Branden and Nathaniel Branden, Who Is Ayn Rand? (New York: Random House, 1962).
Robert Mayhew, ed., Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” (United Kingdom: Lexington Books, 2004).
____, Essays on Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” (United Kingdom: Lexington Books, 2005).
____, Essays on Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” (United Kingdom: Lexington Books, 2007).
Scott McConnell, 100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand (Irvine, Calif.: Ayn Rand Institute Press, to be published).
Ronald E. Merrill, The Ideas of Ayn Rand (Chicago: Open Court Press, 1991).
The Objectivist Newsletter, 1962–65 (New York: The Objectivist, Inc.; New Milford, Conn.: Second Renaissance Books, 1991).
The Objectivist, 1966–71 (New York: The Objectivist, Inc.; New Milford, Conn.: Second Renaissance Books, 1990).
Edward W. Younkins, ed., Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”: A Philosophical and Literary Companion (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007).
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers Collection, Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, Calif.
AMPTP Collection, Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, Calif.
Bennett Cerf Collection, Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York.
Bobbs-Merrill Collection, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Cecil B. DeMille Collection, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
Hedda Hopper Collection, Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, Calif.
National Archives and Records Administration, Northeast Region, New York and Washington, D.C.
Paramount Contracts Collection, Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, Calif.
Isabel Paterson Papers, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, Iowa. Ayn Rand Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Random House Collection, Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York.
Benjamin Stohlberg Collection, Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York.
H. N. Swanson Collection, Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, Calif.
United Artists Collection, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison.
U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Records Management Division, Washington, D.C.
Hal Wallis Collection, Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, Calif.
A. Watkins Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York.
Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Ariz.
BOOKS
Salo W. Baron, The Russian Jew under the Tsars and Soviets (New York: Macmillan, 1964).
Kevin Bazzana, Lost Genius: the Curious and Tragic Story of an Extraordinary Musical Prodigy (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007).
Mikhail Beizer, The Jews of St. Petersburg (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1989).
Ellsworth Bernard, Wendell Willkie: Fighter for Freedom (Marquette: Northern Michigan University Press, 1966).
Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s (Rocklin, Calif.: Forum, 1998).
Harry Binswanger, The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z (New York: New American Library, 1986).
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (New York: Random House, 2005).
Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990).
_____, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991).
Barbara Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand (New York: Doubleday, 1986).
_____, Barbara Branden and Nathaniel Branden, Who Is Ayn Rand? (New York: Random House, 1962).
Nathaniel Branden, Judgment Day (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989).
_____, My Years with Ayn Rand (Hoboken, N.J.: Jossey-Bass, 1999).
Jeff Britting, Ayn Rand (New York: The Overlook Press, 2004).
William F. Buckley, Jr., McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1954).
_____, Getting It Right (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2003).
_____, Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers’ Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr.,
1954–61 (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1970).
Joseph Carr, The Technician’s Radio Receiver Handbook (Oxford, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001).
Bennett
Cerf, At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf (New York: Random House, 1977).
John Chamberlain, A Life with the Printed Word (Chicago: Regnery Gateway, 1982).
Leslie Chamberlain, The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia (London: Atlantic Books, 2006).
Whittaker Chambers, Witness (New York: Random House, 1952).
Maurice Champagne, The Mysterious Valley, Bill Bucko, trans., intro. by Harry Binswanger (Lafayette, Colo.: The Atlantean Press, 1994).
Stephen Cox, The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America (Piscataway, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2004).
Cecil B. DeMille, The Autobiography of Cecil B. DeMille, David Hayne, ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1959; New York: Garland Publishing, 1989).
Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern Libertarian Movement (New York: Public Affairs, 2007).
Albert Ellis, Is Objectivism a Religion? (New York: Institute for Rational Living Press, 1968).
Orlando Figes, Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002).
_____, A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891–1924 (New York: Penguin Books, 1996).
Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (New York: Anchor Books, 1989).
Arthur L. George and Elena George, St. Petersburg: Russia’s Window to the Future (Oxford, UK: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2003).
Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985).
Mimi Reisel Gladstein, The Ayn Rand Companion (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984).
Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (New York: Penguin, 2007).
Virginia L. L. Hamel, In Defense of Ayn Rand (Brookline, Mass.: New Beacon Publications, 1990).
Steve H. Hanke, with Lars Jonung and Kurt Schuler, Russian Currency and Finance (New York: Routledge, 1993).
Hiram Haydn, Words & Faces (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1974). Lillian Hellman, Scoundrel Time (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976).
Granville Hicks, John Reed: The Making of a Revolutionary (New York: Macmillan, 1936).
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