Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [286]
preponderance of evidence is on her side: In The Woman and the Dynamo, Cox argues this persuasively, pp. 310–14.
“an ungulfable bridge”: Isabel Paterson, “Turns with a Bookworm,” New York Herald Tribune, August 25, 1946; undated note by IP, cited in The Woman and the Dynamo, p. 391, note 58.
“Will you write my autobiography?”: TPOAR, p. 165, based on an interview with Muriel Hall.
“She is afraid of traffic”: Isabel Paterson, “Turns with a Bookworm,” New York Herald Tribune, September 23, 1945.
“To All Innocent Fifth Columnists”: “Fifth columnist” was coined during the Spanish civil war to mean a turncoat or traitor within the ranks.
“Of such as you is the Kingdom of Hitler and Stalin”: Ayn Rand, “To All Innocent Fifth Columnists,” circa 1940 (JOAR, p. 345).
wanted to do for free-market capitalism: Letter to Channing Pollock, April 28, 1941 (LOAR, p. 45).
Think Twice: Three Plays, pp. 196–291. The play seems never to have been professionally produced.
written in three weeks: Author correspondence with Michael Berliner, December 20, 2005.
the month of January 1941: Unpublished letter from AR to H. N. Swanson, a film-industry agent, October 10, 1948 (H. N. Swanson Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, box 56).
“I had not heard or dreamed of the atom bomb”: Unpublished letter to H. H. Swanson (H. N. Swanson Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, box 56).
Two months later, in April: Unless otherwise stated, all quotations and other information about the unpublished essay “The Individualist Manifesto” come from Jeff Britting, “Anthem and ‘The Individualist Manifesto,’” in EOA, pp. 70–80. For date of composition, see p. 79, note 2; for essay length, see p. 72.
citizens owe the government nothing: “Government Financing in a Free Society,” TVOS, pp. 135–40.
“mud to be ground underfoot”: 1936 edition; original WTL manuscript, Ayn Rand Papers, LOC, box 18, quoted in EOWTL, p. 211.
“Man, each single, solitary, individual man”: “To All Innocent Fifth Columnists,” circa 1940 (JOAR, p. 350).
sent the author’s outline: BBTBI.
“bad” disappointment: Perhaps it is no coincidence that she named the malevolent milquetoast of a U.S. president in AS Mr. Thompson.
found this episode funny: TPOAR, p. 156.
book might sell: BBTBI.
ran out of money: BBTBI.
criticizing her to others: BBTBI.
making it impossible to sell: BBTBI.
resigned in protest: “You did not want to handle TF further because you told me that I made it impossible to sell it,” AR reportedly wrote; “The Hero in the Soul Manifested in the World.”
or because Rand abruptly broke off with her: TPOAR, p. 156.
“Even instincts have reasons”: “The Hero in the Soul Manifested in the World.”
lost a champion: “The Hero in the Soul Manifested in the World.” Of course, Ann Watkins lived to regret her loss of confidence in TF, just as Macmillan and Knopf may have regretted not investing $1,200 and $1,000, respectively.
She was a slow reader: Author interview with Robert Hessen, October 17, 2007.
took her under their wing: TPOAR, pp. 168–69.
placid definitions: “The Only Path to Tomorrow,” pp. 88–90; the essay was condensed from “The Moral Basis of Individualism,” written in 1943 but not published (August 18, 1943 to March 22, 1946 [JOAR, pp. 243–310]), which in turn was based on “The Individualist Manifesto.” AR’s definitions of individualism and collectivism did not change from the 1930s on.
proved surprisingly controversial: Letters to Channing Pollock, March—August 1941 (LOAR, pp. 44–56).
struck her as anti-intellectual and smug: TPOAR, p. 163.
Nazis occupied Kiev: Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985), p. 202.
“If I were a defender of Communism”: Letter to DeWitt Emery (executive of the Small Businessmen’s Association), September 10, 1941 (LOAR, p. 58).
Mostly, she yearned for the resources: TPOAR, p. 168.
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