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especially good when challenged: Letter to DeWitt Emery, August 14, 1941 (LOAR, p. 57).
“I chose to be an American”: TPOAR, p. 161.
a larger number of interesting men and women: Letter to Gerald Loeb, August 15, 1944 (LOAR, p. 154).
Channing Pollock: “The Hero in the Soul Manifested in the World.”
several of the key ideas: From Nock, AR learned to distinguish between political man and economic man, i.e., between those who live by imposing taxes on what other people produce and those who do the producing. This concept appears explicitly in AR’s “The Individualist Manifesto,” written in the spring of 1941; its psychological correlative permeates TF.
“America’s Joan of Arc”: “The Hero in the Soul Manifested in the World.”
“barbarism and poverty to affluence and culture”: Jennifer Burns, “Godless Capitalism: Ayn Rand and the Conservative Movement,” Modern Intellectual History, 2004 (vol. 1, no. 3), p. 367.
“violent” indignation: TPOAR, p. 162.
perceived him as having knuckled under: Until January 1940, Willkie had been a lifelong Democrat, so the fact that he shared FDR’s opinions on some issues should not have come as a surprise to his supporters.
“Willkie was the guiltiest man”: TPOAR, p. 161.
men and women of strong convictions: Letter to Gerald Loeb, August 5, 1944 (LOAR, p. 155).
wrote broadsides and letters: One of these appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Wendell Willkie, pp. 384–85 and p. 577, note 18; see also “Ex-Willkie Aids Assail Him for G.O.P. ‘Betrayal,’” Chicago Daily Tribune, December 6, 1942, p. 22).
organization of conservative intellectuals: Letter to Channing Pollock, May 27, 1941 (LOAR, p. 47).
apartment on East Thirty-fifth Street: From October 1940 through September 1941, the O’Connors lived at 349 East Forty-ninth Street; from October 1941 until December 1943, they lived in apartment 1N of the Bromley apartment house at 139 East Thirty-fifth Street (Binswanger, dinner lecture, April 24, 2005).
down to less than nine hundred dollars: BBTBI; in TPOAR, p. 160, BB mistakenly quotes the figure as seven hundred dollars.
quirkily Christian fifty-four-year-old: IP was born on January 22, 1886, on Manitoulin Island in northern Ontario.
the older woman didn’t remember the encounter: The Woman and the Dynamo, p. 219.
hardships could be instructive: The Woman and the Dynamo, p. 219; Isabel Paterson, “Turns with a Bookworm,” New York Herald Tribune, May 31, 1935, p. 15.
most outspoken critic: Stephen Cox, “Atlas and the Bible: Ayn Rand’s Debt to Isabel Paterson,” in Edward W. Younkins, ed., Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”: A Philosophical and Literary Companion (Aldershot: Ash-gate, 2007), pp. 351–60.
had been asking for Rand’s phone number: BBTBI.
liked her “enormously”: BBTBI.
gathered to proofread: Author interview with Muriel Hall, IP’s friend and executor, July 7, 2004.
a conservative Round Table: A Life with the Printed Word, p. 55.
remarking later: BBTBI.
Paterson had a theory about capitalism: The Woman and the Dynamo, pp. 254–55.
a “marvelous mind”: BBTBI.
was a genius: TPOAR, p. 165, based on an interview with Muriel Hall.
“sat at the master’s feet”: Samuel Gardner Welles, Jr., was IP’s literary executor and Muriel Hall’s older brother; quoted by Muriel Hall; see also The Woman and the Dynamo, p. 220, quoting Welles.
“guru and teacher”: TPOAR, p. 166.
her opinion of a riddle: BBTBI; The Woman and the Dynamo, pp. 310–11 and p. 401, note 46. Cox speculates that AR had not read Boswell and misremembered the ethical dilemma IP presented. In Boswell’s Life of Johnson, the biographer asks the man of letters what he would do if he were shut up with a child in a castle. Dr. Johnson imagines that he wouldn’t much enjoy the company but would probably feed and bathe the child; this appears under the date Thursday, October 26, 1769, on p. 420