Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [304]
assuming that they were arguing about the doctrine of natural rights: Author interview with Bettina Bien Greaves, December 22, 2006; also “Books,” TON, September 1963, p. 34.
peace was restored: Unpublished letter from Henry Hazlitt to WFB, March 13, 1982, courtesy of Bettina Bien Greaves.
during one of Hazlitt’s trips to Los Angeles: Author correspondence with BB, June 24, 2008.
“Did he really say man?”: Unpublished letter from Henry Hazlitt to WFB, March 13, 1982, courtesy of Bettina Bien Greaves.
irritated by Mises’s rejection of a moral … argument: MYWAR, p. 116.
“allowed normal human considerations”: MYWAR, p. 116.
with the Brandens in attendance: Author correspondence with BB, June 24, 2006.
He liked to stop by her apartment: Author interview with Richard Cornuelle, August 5, 2006.
and helped him to promote his books: Through the NBI Book Service.
Cornuelle was half relieved: Author interview with Richard Cornuelle, August 5, 2006.
added embellishment that she wept: That AR wept was a detail added by Frances Hazlitt, who was present at the dinner party, according to Bettina Bien Greaves, January 6, 2007.
requesting a written denial: NB wrote to LVM in response to a report that the conservative theorist Russell Kirk had told the story of “the silly little Jewish girl” during a lecture he gave at the University of Wisconsin in 1962. Unpublished letters from Winfred Blevins to NB, May 16, 1962, and from NB to LVM, June 20, 1962, both courtesy of Edward Hudgins.
Mises, then in his eighties, complied: Unpublished letter from LVM to Russell Kirk, July 5, 1962, courtesy of Edward Hudgins.
immediately after Rand’s death he wrote: Unpublished letter from Henry Hazlitt to WFB, March 13, 1982, courtesy of Bettina Bien Greaves.
“She felt no pity”: AS, p. 560.
“all the years of ugliness”: AS, p. 702.
Rothbard found the experience of paying court to her: Letter from MR to Richard Cornuelle, August 11, 1954, quoted in Justin Raimondo, An Enemy of the State (Amherst, Mass.: Prometheus, 2000), p. 110.
called themselves the Circle Bastiat: The group was named after Claude Frédéric Bastiat, a nineteenth-century French political economist.
The date was set for a Saturday evening: The meetings took place on July 10 and July 17, 1954, according to George Reisman (“Reisman on Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand”).
arrayed on the sofa: “Reisman on Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand.”
“the voice of Judgment”: “Reisman on Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand.”
“While I agreed”: Letter from MR to Richard Corneulle, August 11, 1954, quoted in An Enemy of the State, p. 110.
“an enhanced sense of male power”: JD, p. 140.
Heretofore apprehensive in his relationships: Author interview with BB, July 1, 2008.
would claim that he and Rand were still unaware: Broadcast interview with NB by Ken Wilber, Integral Naked online, 2005.
advised him, and also Barbara: JD, p. 126.
a capacity for sexual passion: JD, p. 140.
on Father’s Day of 1951: JD, p. 100.
which is a perfect anagram: Nora Ephron first pointed out the “ben Rand” connection in “A Strange Kind of Simplicity.” NB and BB have frequently and strenuously denied that their chosen surname has anything to do with the last name of their mentor. BB has stated that she and NB chose the name from a New York City telephone book.
jointly fielding questions: Author correspondence with BB, June 24, 2008.
They felt a degree of spiritual unity: MYWAR, p. 121.
he had never really contemplated: Author interview with NB, August 10, 2004.
“I am in love with you”: JD, pp. 142–47.
Rand suggested that the affair: JD, p. 153.
“It was not named but it was felt”: JD, p. 154.
Not so Barbara: MYWAR, p. 133.
“There is nothing in our feeling”: