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5
. Peikoff, “Fact and Value”; Kelley, “Truth and Toleration.”

6
. “No Gods or Kings: Objectivism in Bioshock,” available at
www.kotaku.com/354717/no-gods-or-kings-objectivism-in-bioshock
. [February 7, 2009].

7
. The program was sponsored by the Telluride Association. Eitan Grossman, personal communication to author.

8
. Tobias Wolff,
Old School
(New York: Knopf, 2003), 68.

9
. Mary Gaitskill,
Two Girls Fat and Thin
(New York: Poseidon Press, 1991); Murray Rothbard, “Mozart Was a Red,” available at
www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/mozart.html
. [February 19, 2009]. Rand also appeared, thinly disguised, as the imperious babykiller Vardis Wolfe in former Collective member Kay Nolte Smith’s
Elegy for a Soprano
(New York: Villard Books, 1985).

10
. Testimony of Dr. Alan Greenspan, Committee of Government Oversight and Reform, October 23, 2008, in Edmund L. Andrews, “Greenspan Concedes Error on Regulation,”
New York Times
, October 23, 2008. Typical criticisms of Rand include David Corn, “Alan Shrugged: Greenspan, Ayn Rand, and Their God That Failed,”
Mother Jones
, October 25, 2008, available at
www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/25-6
[February 5, 2009]; Jacob Weisburg, “The End of Libertarianism,”
Slate
, October 18, 2008, available at
www.slate.com/id/2202489
[February 6, 2009]. Weisberg’s article drew a sharp retort from Richard Epstein, “Strident and Wrong,”
Forbes.com
, available at
www.forbes.com/2008/10/27/slate-libertarian-weisberg-oped-cx_re_1028epstein.html
[February 6, 2009]. Yaron Brook is quoted in Barrett Sheridan, “Who Is to Blame?,”
Newsweek
, available at
www.newsweek.com/id/173514
[February 6, 2009]. Sales of
Atlas Shrugged
are noted in “Atlas Felt a Sense of Déjà Vu,”
The Economist
, February 26, 2009, available at
www.economist.com/.nance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13185404&source=hptextfeature
[March 4, 2009]. The trend of “going Galt” is described at the Liberty Papers blog,
www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/03/06/will-atlas-shrug-an-compilation-of-blogosphere-commentary-about-going-galt/
[March 8, 2009]. Rush Limbaugh, “An Ayn Rand Sequel: Atlas Puked,” available at www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_121108/content/01125115.guest.html [March 2, 2009].

11
. Katherine Mangu-Ward, “The Real Community Organizer,”
Reason
, January 2009, available at
www.reason.com/news/show/130353.html
[February 7, 2009].

12
. Clement C. Mason to AR, October 14, 1957, 22–05–03A, ARP.

13
.
Journals
, 86.

14
. Lee Clettenberg to AR, February 3, 1965, ellipses in original document, Box 43, folder 07–07E, ARP.

15
. Ayn Rand,
The Fountainhead
, 50th anniversary ed. (1943; New York: Signet, 1993), ix.

Essay on Sources

1
. Chris Sciabarra, “Bowdlerizing Ayn Rand,”
Liberty
, September 1998.

2
. Ayn Rand,
Letters of Ayn Rand
, ed. Michael S. Berliner (New York: Dutton, 1995), xvi–xvii.

3
. To understand the differences between Rand’s letters as written and as published, readers may wish to compare the edited version of Rand’s August 1, 1946, letter to Leonard Read (
Letters
, 298–300) with a complete PDF of the original letter posted on the website of the Foundation for Economic Education (
www.fee.org
).

4
. Ayn Rand,
Journals of Ayn Rand
, ed. David Harriman (New York: Dutton, 1997), 82. The original is in Second Hand Lives notebooks, Box 167, Ayn Rand Papers (henceforth ARP).

5
.
Journals
, 162, and Box 167, folder 167–02D, 120, ARP.

6
. For omission of Nock, see Sciabarra. Reference to Ingebretsen is deleted from
Journals
, 274, but can be found in Rand, Notes on the Moral Basis of Individualism, June 29, 1945, ARP 32–11A.

7
. Reference to race is in notebook “Second-Hand Lives,” December 4, 1935, 13, ARC 167–01B, and is deleted from
Journals
, 81. Reference to “nance” is in notebook “Second Hand Lives,” March 28, 1937, 85, ARP 167–01D, and is deleted from
Journals
, 109.

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Archival Collections

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
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Ayn Rand Archives
Ayn Rand Papers

Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington, New York
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Anthem
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“A Faith for Modern Management.”
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For the New Intellectual
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The Fountainhead
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The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
. New York: Penguin, 1971.

Night of January 16th
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Objectively Speaking: Ayn Rand Interviewed
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Philosophy: Who Needs It
. New York: Signet, 1982.

The Romantic Manifesto
. 1971; New York: Penguin, 1975.

Russian Writings on Hollywood
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The Virtue of Selfishness
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We the Living
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Bell, Iris

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Bradford, Bruce

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Brewer, Roy

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Buechner, M. Northrup

Bungay, Jack

Childs, Roy

Cornuelle, Richard

Douglas, Robert

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Eddy, Duane

Eikoff, Katherine

Elliott, Jean

Faragher, John

Gillam, Jackie

Goldberg, Harvey

Gotthelf, Allan

Green, Daniel

Grossinger, Tania

Halpert, Wesley

Hassani, Lissette

Hendricksen, Bruce

Hessen, Robert

Higgins, John

Hill, Ruth Beebe

Holzer, Erica

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Howard, John

Ingebretsen, James

Johnson, Bill

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Stanley, Scott

Sutton, Dan

Toffler, Alvin

Torigian, Rosemary

Ventura, Don

Wallace, Mike

Wilson, Rosalie

Winick, Eugene

Wolfe, Docky

Wright, Evan

Wright, Micky

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Allitt, Patrick.
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______.
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Alpers, Benjamin L.
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______, ed.
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