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politely raised their hands: In and Out of Books, “Class of ‘43,” p. 136.

“It was the world of Atlas Shrugged”: Author interview with NB, August 10, 2004.

returned to their new studio apartment: TPOAR, p. 253–54.

some of Nathaniel’s relatives noticed: Author interview with NB’s sisters Florence Hirschfeld and EK, August 25, 2006. In a December 2005 interview, BB told the author that both NB’s and LP’s mothers were jealous of AR. “They knew that if [their sons] had to choose, they would probably choose Ayn.”

“he liked Ayn better than he liked her”: Author interview with Florence Hirschfeld, Jonathan Hirschfeld, and EK, August 25, 2006.

165 East Thirty-fifth Street: MYWAR, p. 100.

ELEVEN: THE IMMOVABLE MOVER: 1953–1957

“Only the man who extols”: AS, p. 454.

it hadn’t yet splintered: “Godless Capitalism,” pp. 359–85.

penthouse apartment of J. B Matthews: Author interview with William F. Buckley, Jr., June 12, 2006.

reformed Communist fellow-traveler: “J. B. Matthews, R.I.P.,” National Review, August 9, 1966. Matthews is credited with having coined the phrase “fellow-traveler” (Margit von Mises, My Years with Ludwig von Mises [Bel Air, Calif.: Arlington House, 1984], p. 157).

often stopped in at Matthews’s: “J. B. Matthews, R.I.P.”

first met McCarthy: Author correspondence with BB, who was present, September 17, 2008.

246 “Tell me your premises”: MYWAR, p. 185.

“singular”: Author interview with WFB, June 13, 2006.

“Mr. Buckley, you arrrr too intelligent”: WFB, “Recollection of Ayn Rand,” syndicated in the Chicago Sun-Times, March 13, 1982.

“That certainly is an icebreaker”: WFB, “Ayn Rand, R.I.P.” National Review, April 2, 1982, p. 380.

“I had just written a book about him”: The book was McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1954).

“an instantly communicable charm”: Author interview with WFB, June 12, 2006.

written in liturgical Latin, as a joke: “Ayn Rand, R.I.P.” p. 380.

payback for earlier leftist allegations: Discussed in Ralph Raico’s taped speech, “Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand,” Ludwig von Mises Institute lecture.

“Oh, I see. The Big Lie”: Author interview with JKT, May 21, 2004.

told a young friend: 100 Voices, Susan Ludel, p. 412.

“From an author who voted for him”: 100 Voices, Richard L. Phillips, p. 137.

reportedly didn’t vote: According to a student’s notes, LP told a class of philosophy students that Rand hadn’t voted in either election; notes courtesy of MSC.

Branden recalled her indignation: MYWAR, pp. 117–18.

“I was hard put to it when [Zhukor] insisted: Quoted in “No Invitations, Please,” Time, July 29, 1957.

“the noblest, freest country”: MYWAR, p. 118.

newly appointed editor of The Freeman: Beginning in 1950, ARs and IP’s mutual friend Leonard Read financed The Freeman through the Foundation for Economic Education, a libertarian think tank he founded, based in Irvington, New York. By the early 1950s, AR had broken with him, too, over a “pernicious” pamphlet he published called Roof or Ceilings? by Milton Friedman and George Stigler. Friedman, at that time a self-declared Keynesian, would become famous as an advocate of free markets, but he and AR continued to be at odds (Murray Rothbard, “Milton Friedman Unraveled,” 1971, reprinted in Journal of Libertarian Studies, Fall 2002). At the height of Friedman’s fame in 1979, they would appear on the same Phil Donahue show in May 1980.

Frank Meyer and Willie Schlamm: Interview with Bettina Bien Greaves, January 6, 2007.

Mises, as he was known: Though LVM would ordinarily be referred to as von Mises, his American admirers called him Mises.

didn’t see eye to eye: George Reisman, “Reisman on Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand,” speech presented to the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

dinner party he and Frances gave in 1941 or 1942: Unpublished letter from Henry Hazlitt to WFB, March 13, 1982, courtesy of Bettina Bien Greaves. Hazlitt, correcting Buckley’s errors in the National Review obituary