“is not, and by its essential nature cannot conceivably be”: Whittaker Chambers, Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers’ Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1969, pp. 227–28, cited in “Godless Capitalism,” p. 375.
She had expected attacks: AR claimed never to have read the Whittaker Chambers review of AS (LOAR, p. 572) but to have been told about it by others.
Anguished, she asked Barbara: TPOAR, p. 304.
285 “even earlier than I imagined”: MYWAR, p. 203.
Paterson sent an indignant letter: The Woman and the Dynamo, p. 351.
if so, she refused to go: Author interview with WFB, June 12, 2006.
lampooned her: William F. Buckley, Jr., Getting It Right (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2003).
“I believe she died under the impression”: Author interview with WFB, June 12, 2006.
thought that he had been drinking: MYWAR, p. 201.
“She was a valiant human being”: Author interview with WFB, June 12, 2006.
confused its author’s increasingly authoritarian personality: TPOAR, p. 302.
“To hear a woman”: “Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged.“
“Her personal bitterness was at odds with her philosophy”: “An Interview with Barbara Branden,” p. 8.
ascended to number five: “Best Seller List,” NYT Book Review, October 27, 1957, p. 4.
Five years after its first printing: TON, December 1962 (vol. 1, no. 12), p. 47.
150,000 copies a year: Author correspondence with Richard Ralston, publishing manager of ARI, March 3, 2004.
the intelligent common man: Author interview with JKT, May 21, 2004.
“the largely abandoned class”: Claudia Roth Pierpont, “Twilight of the Goddess,” The New Yorker, July 24, 1995, p. 76.
Other notes identify: JOAR, pp. 706–716.
She would resume musing: “Two Possible Books,” November 30, 1957, and February 10, 1959 (JOAR, pp. 706–11).
organized a letter-writing campaign: “In and Out of Books: Class of ‘43,” p. 136.
“We were all strongly encouraged”: Author interview with EK, NB’s sister, on July 21, 2006.
wrote to The New York Times: “Letters to the Editor,” NYT, November 3, 1957, p. 283.
lacked compassion and “proceeds from hate”: Patricia Donegan, “A Point of View,” Commonweal, November 8, 1957, p. 156.
he pointed out: “Communications,” Commonweal, December 20, 1957, p. 313.
Leonard Peikoff, Daryn Kent, and … John Chamberlain: “Letters to the Editor,” National Review, January 18, 1958, p. 71.
canceling subscriptions to Time: 100 Voices, Kathleen Nickerson, p. 181.
Her life’s mission to create: December 15, 1960 (JOAR, p. 704).
“She had left Galt’s Gulch”: “Ayn Rand and Her Movement,” p. 7.
“Ayn had disappeared into [the] alternate reality”: MYWAR, p. 195.
“Something was gone”: “Interview with Nathaniel Branden,” p. 6.
“What kind of world is this?”: MYWAR, p. 205.
“I felt like my job was to protect her”: Author interview with NB, May 5, 2004.
“one part of my destiny”: MYWAR, p. 194.
“With my lecture course”: Author interview with NB, May 5, 2004.
she didn’t want to give her enemies an opportunity: Author interview with Robert Hessen, October 17, 2007.
289 Bennett Cerf and Hiram Haydn pled a shortage of time: Unpublished taped interview of Bertha Krantz by BB, dated September 20, 1983.
mentioned the author’s name in the first line of copy: Circular advertising NB’s first lecture series, Hiram Haydn correspondence, Bennett Cerf Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 436.
“she-messiah”: “Born Eccentric,” Newsweek, March 27, 1961.
“We [are] like Siamese twins”: MYWAR, pp. 121-22.
THIRTEEN: THE PUBLIC PHILOSOPHER: 1958–1963
“My personal life is a postscript to my novels”: “About the Author,” AS, p. 107.
“hangers-on,” “brownnosers”: From BC’s oral history interview on file at the Columbia University Oral History Project archives, number 719, conducted by Mary R. Hawkins, 1971, pp. 903–952.
“the very whining, toadying quality”: Words & Faces, p. 258.
“If anyone can pick a single rational flaw”: Mike Wallace, “Should the Strong Inherit the Earth?” NYP, December 9, 1957, ghosted by Edith Efron.
Barbara and Nathaniel persuaded her: Author correspondence with BB, June 27, 2008.
gave a lecture called “Faith and Force”: “Ayn Rand as a Public Speaker.”
At Brooklyn College: In April 1958; “Ayn Rand as a Public Speaker.”
“I was awed by the power”: 100 Voices, Fred Feingersh, p. 176.
“Why Human Beings Repress and Drive Underground”: NBI flyer, September 1964, courtesy of Lee Clifford.
“Lectures on Objectivism”: Advertisement, NYT, October 7, 1962, p. X4.
attendance rose steadily: MYWAR, p. 206.
During the question periods: TPOAR, p. 329.
“every word, every sentence was magic”: “Interview with Henry Mark Holzer,” p. 6.
enlisted Alan Greenspan: TPOAR, p. 307.
By popular demand: 100 Voices, Kathleen Nickerson, p. 181. AR’s lectures on plot, theme, characterization, and style were recorded, transcribed, edited, and, in 2000, published as The Art of Fiction.
began in early 1958: 100 Voices, Larry Abrams, p. 194.
For six months: 100 Voices, Larry Abrams, footnote, p. 194.
if self-referentiaclass="underline" In another example of her tendency toward self-reference, during an NBI question-and-answer period she mentioned that her favorite painting was Salvador Dalí’s Crucifixion. Students, who all knew that she was an atheist, were confused. She explained that the Christ in the painting reminded her of Galt on the torture device at the end of AS (100 Voices, Allan Gotthelf, p. 330).
critique the very passages: TPOAR, p. 278; 100 Voices, Kathleen Nickerson, p. 183.