following their joint appearance: The broadcast aired on October 11, 1961; no videotape seems to have survived.
threw back her head and laughed: Author interview with Al Ramrus, February 7, 2007.
They formed a mutual admiration society: Spillane also met Rand’s followers. “I was never at her place when they weren’t there,” he told an interviewer. “Every time one of us would talk, all [their] heads would follow that person” (100 Voices, Mickey Spillane, pp. 235–38).
“Ayn Rand and I, we don’t have to shrug”: 100 Voices, Mickey Spillane, pp. 235–38.
“vicious injustice on the part of the ‘intellectuals’ “: “The Ayn Rand Column,” Los Angeles Times, September 2, 1962.
“moral cannibals”: AS, p. 928.
Rand paid for her hoteclass="underline" Letter to Vera Glarner, née Guzarchik, March 2, 1962 (LOAR, p. 595).
deeply impressed by their American cousin’s fame: 100 Voices, Lisette Hassanil, pp. 257–59.
Rand wrote that she missed her: Letter to Vera Glarner, August 4, 1962 (LOAR, p. 599).
hosted a radio program: “Interview with Joan Kennedy Taylor,” p. 3. The station was WEVD, New York.
didn’t comment on Nabokov’s lurid subject: In a March 1964 Playboy interview, AR told Alvin Toffler that she regarded Nabokov as a brilliant stylist but that his subjects and “sense of life” were evil; “The Playboy Interview: Ayn Rand,” p. 40.
“Oh, Nabokov!”: Author interview with JKT, May 21, 2004.
never contacted his sister Olga: Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991), p. 388. Interestingly, Boyd describes a speech Nabokov gave at Cornell in 1958 in which he reenacted a love scene from Fyodor Gladkov’s 1930s Russian industrial novel Energiya, about the building of a Russian dam, in which the hero confesses love to the heroine while operating a pneumatic drill. “Social Realism’s ideal love scene—boy and girl with pneumatic drill,” Boyd quotes Nabokov as saying gleefully (p. 360).
“She was very, um, cautious”: Author interview with JKT, May 21, 2004.
Mannheimer turned up in New York: Author interview with BB, June 9, 2006. NB didn’t remember seeing Mannheimer as a client but thought that sending the screenwriter to him “sounded like something Ayn would do;” author interview with NB, April 3, 2008.
appearing anxious, stiff, and visibly frightened: Author interview with BB, June 9, 2006.
having seen almost nothing of Rand: Author interview with BB, June 9, 2006.
fatally shot himself: Obituaries, Variety, March 15, 1972.
“Too bad”: Author interview with Joan Blumenthal, October 10, 2007.
saw little of Frances and Henry: Karen Reedstrom, “Interview with Erika Holzer,” Full Context, February 1996, p. 3.
struck her as a betrayaclass="underline" Author interview with BB, October 12, 2007.
never had a good word to say: Author interview with BB, December 16, 2005.
the sensation she created: Author interview with Bettina Bien Greaves, December 22, 2006.
Mises’s eightieth-birthday party: William Henry Chamberlain, “Ludwig von Mises at 80,” Wall Street Journal, October 20, 1961, p. 10; My Years with Ludwig von Mises, p. 163. The party was held at the University Club of New York.
“LSD steps up our voltage”: Quoted in Radicals for Capitalism, p. 280.
editing a quasi-religious libertarian magazine: Radicals for Capitalism, p. 276.
“Whenever I wrote anything”: Interview with Thaddeus Ashby, conducted by Wendy de Weese, June 20, 2005.
she attended the awards ceremony and enjoyed herself: Author interview with JKT, May 21, 2004.
three million copies in print: EOWTL, p. 143. Oddly, in spite of the fact that the cold war was at its height and that two years earlier Khrushchev had disclosed the mass killings committed by Stalin at about the time WTL had first been published, the reissued novel attracted little attention. The hardback edition seems to have been reviewed only in the Miami Herald and the Detroit Jewish News (EOWTL, p. 151).
advertising reply card for NBI: The reply card was the brainstorm of Robert Hessen, at that time a graduate student at Columbia University and part-time employee of NBI. Hessen recalls one evening in 1961 or 1962 when AR and NB assembled the Collective and a few other Objectivists to bawl them out for not contributing enough to the advancement of AR’s philosophy. They named Hessen as an example to the contrary, praising his ideas for the reply card, the book service, and the soon-to-be-launched tape transcription service; “I was mortified.” Author interview with Robert Hessen, October 17, 2007.
most expensive paperback ever sold: TPOAR, p. 299.
NAL republished Anthem: The NAL edition of Anthem was published in September 1961. By late 1963, there were five hundred thousand copies of Anthem in print (“Objectivist Calendar,” TON, January 1962 and November 1963, pp. 1, 41).
Participants arrived once a week: Author interview with Florence Hirschfeld, Jonathan Hirschfeld, and EK, August 25, 2006.
each paying half the New York rate: NBI flyer, September 1964, courtesy of Lee Clifford.
gave readings of Rand’s plays: “Objectivist Calendar,” TON, October 1963 and May 1965, p. 22.
wrote proudly of having aided Rand’s transformation: MYWAR, p. 237.
it was the buzz and growing influence: http://www.solopassion.com/node/1257.
“infinitely more rational”: BBTBI.
“whole enormous response to
Nathan”: http://www.solopassion.com/node/1257.
“I hate bitterness”: MYWAR, p. 251.
“I’m inclined to think, in the end, no”: Author interview with NB, May 5, 2004.
FOURTEEN: ACCOUNT OVER DRAWN: 1962–1967
“It does not matter that only a few in each generation”: Introduction to TF, p. xii.
Yale Law School’s prestigious Challenge series: The lecture took place on February 17, 1960.
In a car on the way to New Haven: TPOAR, p. 315.