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nytimes.com - 10/30/2009

Ayn Rand’s Revenge

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Anne C. Heller’s biography conveys the conviction and odd charisma of Ayn Rand, whose individualist message is still resonant for American conservatives.

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newsweek.com - 10/24/2009

Mark Sanford on Ayn Rand | Newsweek Books

— newsweek.com — In my experience, people who've read Ayn Rand's books either love them or hate them. I'm one... of the few who fall somewhere in between. When I first read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged in the 1980s, I was blown away. Those books portray the power ... (more) Mark Sanford on Ayn Rand | Newsweek Books

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youtube.com - 11/2/2009

Rand-O-Rama: The Long Shelf Life of Ayn Rand (video)

— youtube.com — Few authors have ever achieved the popularity that the novelist and essayist Ayn Rand (1905-1982) did. With... the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943 and A... (more) Rand-O-Rama: The Long Shelf Life of Ayn Rand (video)

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slate.com - 11/2/2009

Two biographies of Ayn Rand.

— slate.com — Ayn Rand is one of America's great mysteries. She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers,... who in her spare time wrote lavish torrents of praise for serial killers and the Bernie Madoff-style embezzlers of her day. She opposed ... (more) Two biographies of Ayn Rand.

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Firedoglake:  I Know Who Isn’t John Galt…

Althouse:  Ayn Rand "kept going on amphetamines and willpower; the writing... was a 'drops-of-water-in-a-desert kind of torture.'"

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Word Count -- By: Nicole Gelinas
The Corner on National Review Online — Adam Kirsch reviews Anne C. Heller's new Ayn Rand biography in this weekend's Book Review. His piece offers this nugget about John Galt's long radio address in the novel Atlas Shrugged: A Random House editor told Rand that "if she gave up 7 cents per copy in royalties, she could have the extra paper needed to print Galt's oration." ...

I Know Who Isn’t John Galt…
Firedoglake — ... The last sentence of Adam Kirsch’s review of “Ayn Rand and the World She Made” is quite possibly the most succinct indictment of the GOP and the conservative movement I have ever read: ...

Ayn Rand "kept going on amphetamines and willpower; the writing... was a 'drops-of-water-in-a-desert kind of torture.'"
Althouse — "Rand labored for more than two years on Galt’s radio address near the end of 'Atlas Shrugged'... 'At one point, she stayed inside the apartment, working for 33 days in a row'...." From a review — by TNR editor Adam Kirsch  — of "Ayn Rand and the World She Made." (Buy the book here — and make a automatic contribution, without paying extra, to this blog, on which I've worked for almost 6 years without a single day's break, kept going on amphetamines and willpower... or no, not amphetamines. Not even willpower. Just the love of writing... and coffee, surely, and ...

Abusing the Signal
Whiskey Fire — ... Adam Kirsch reviews Anne C. Heller's new Ayn Rand biography in this weekend's Book Review. His piece offers this nugget about John Galt's long radio address in the novel Atlas Shrugged: ...

The Non-Contradiction of Rand’s Capitalism
The Volokh Conspiracy — Adam Kirsch reviews Anne Heller’s Ayn Rand and the World She Made in the NYT.  As others have noted, the review contains a curious passage. Nor would Rand, sooner than any other desert prophet, allow her message to be trifled with. When Bennett Cerf, a head of Random House, begged her to cut Galt’s speech, Rand replied with what Heller calls “a comment that became publishing legend”: “Would you cut the Bible?” One can imagine what Cerf thought — he had already told Rand plainly, “I find your political philosophy ...

Not Surprisingly, New York Times Reviewer Doesn’t Understand Ayn Rand
Below The Beltway — Adam Kirsch reviews Anne Heller’s Ayn Rand and the World She Made in yesterday’s New York Times and makes this curious statement Nor would Rand, sooner than any other desert prophet, allow her message to be trifled with. When Bennett Cerf, a head of Random House, begged her to cut Galt’s speech, Rand replied with what Heller calls “a comment that became publishing legend”: “Would you cut the Bible?” One can imagine what Cerf thought — he had already told Rand plainly, “I find your political philosophy abhorrent” — but the strange thing ...