immediately after Rand’s death he wrote: Unpublished letter from Henry Hazlitt to WFB, March 13, 1982, courtesy of Bettina Bien Greaves.
“She felt no pity”: AS, p. 560.
“all the years of ugliness”: AS, p. 702.
Rothbard found the experience of paying court to her: Letter from MR to Richard Cornuelle, August 11, 1954, quoted in Justin Raimondo, An Enemy of the State (Amherst, Mass.: Prometheus, 2000), p. 110.
called themselves the Circle Bastiat: The group was named after Claude Frédéric Bastiat, a nineteenth-century French political economist.
The date was set for a Saturday evening: The meetings took place on July 10 and July 17, 1954, according to George Reisman (“Reisman on Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand”).
arrayed on the sofa: “Reisman on Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand.”
“the voice of Judgment”: “Reisman on Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand.”
“While I agreed”: Letter from MR to Richard Corneulle, August 11, 1954, quoted in An Enemy of the State, p. 110.
“an enhanced sense of male power”: JD, p. 140.
Heretofore apprehensive in his relationships: Author interview with BB, July 1, 2008.
would claim that he and Rand were still unaware: Broadcast interview with NB by Ken Wilber, Integral Naked online, 2005.
advised him, and also Barbara: JD, p. 126.
a capacity for sexual passion: JD, p. 140.
on Father’s Day of 1951: JD, p. 100.
which is a perfect anagram: Nora Ephron first pointed out the “ben Rand” connection in “A Strange Kind of Simplicity.” NB and BB have frequently and strenuously denied that their chosen surname has anything to do with the last name of their mentor. BB has stated that she and NB chose the name from a New York City telephone book.
jointly fielding questions: Author correspondence with BB, June 24, 2008.
They felt a degree of spiritual unity: MYWAR, p. 121.
he had never really contemplated: Author interview with NB, August 10, 2004.
“I am in love with you”: JD, pp. 142–47.
Rand suggested that the affair: JD, p. 153.
“It was not named but it was felt”: JD, p. 154.
Not so Barbara: MYWAR, p. 133.
“There is nothing in our feeling”: TPOAR, pp. 258–59.
turned pale and looked downcast: JD, p. 156; TPOAR, p. 259.
We don’t hold our values”: JD, p. 155.
“No! I won’t be part of this”: TPOAR, p. 259.
only wanted to spend a little time together: JD, p. 157.
“With Ayn’s mind”: “Passions: A Disciple Confronts Ayn Rand’s Power,” p. 1.
series of conversations with their spouses: TPOAR, p. 259.
“You both know how little I’ve had”: JD, p. 159.
“What we’re asking for is temporary”: JD, p. 160.
“the epitome and standard of the human potential”: “Passions: A Disciple Confronts Ayn Rand’s Power,” p. 1.
approved of the affair: TPOARC, pp. 135–41.
“arouses his sexual desire”: August 28, 1949 (JOAR, p. 605).
“On the right philosophical premise about sex”: October 6, 1949 (JOAR, p. 609; italics added).
swore everyone to silence: TPOAR, p. 272.
“involve all four of us in a life of deception”: “It’s a Dirty Job, But …”
“an old woman pursuing a younger man”: TPOAR, p. 260.
“If the four of us were of lesser stature”: JD, p. 160.
“I’m amused that you condemned”: “Home Atmosphere.”
“Ayn frightened most people”:JD, pp. 158–61.
drafted the first line of the speech: The opening page of “This Is John Galt Speaking” is dated July 4, 1953 (Ayn Rand Papers, LOC, box 11, folder 3).
allotted roughly three months to its completion: TPOAR, p. 266.
260 “I swear by my life”: AS, pp. 670, 979.
“a dramatized summation of the Objectivist ethics”: “The Playboy Interview: Ayn Rand,” p. 38.
“Just as there are no contradictions”: AS, pp. 939–40.
It was while working on this famous section: Author interview with BB, July 1, 2008.
“drops-of-water-in-a-desert kind of torture”: TPOAR, p. 267.
her favorite nightgown: Facets of Ayn Rand, p. 34.
for thirty-three days: WIAR, p. 226.
seeing no one but her husband: JD, p. 177.
nagged at O’Connor: MYWAR, pp. 169, 189.
pushed her to the limits of her endurance: TPOAR, p. 267.
tendencies became more marked: TPOAR, pp. 267–70.
“You are my reward for everything”: Author interview with NB, December 11, 2008.
“A mind”: JD, p. 163.
both Barbara and Frank: MYWAR, pp. 168–69.
felt both too large and too smalclass="underline" JD, p. 218.
“Do you think only of yourself?”: TPOAR, p. 277.
“Why should I be victimized?”: JD, pp. 167–168.
What’s the matter with you?: “It’s a Dirty Job, But …”
“Repression”: Ayn Rand, The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (New York: Signet, 1971), p. 62.
“She became more than a stranger”: MYWAR, p. 169.
She often phoned him: “It’s a Dirty Job, But …”
“emotionalist”: TPOAR, p. 272.
“You cannot imagine what a nightmare”: R. W. Bradford, “Ayn Rand and Her Movement: An Interview with Barbara Branden,” Liberty, January 1990, pp. 7–8.
anxiety as a crisis of self-esteem: NB, The Psychology of Self-Esteem (Los Angeles, Nash Publishing, 1969), pp. 160–65.
considered turning the theory into a book: MYWAR, p. 147.
began to offer therapy: NB recalled that he charged five dollars an hour, beginning in the spring of 1955 (JD, p. 169).