Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [308]
“a slave to the image she built”: Unpublished taped interview with Bertha Krantz, conducted by BB, September 20, 1983.
A few months before Atlas Shrugged: BCs oral history interview, p. 948.
“Metaphysics: objective reality”: TPOAR, p. 294.
presented packages to Rand: TPOAR, p. 295.
“This is John Galt”: TPOAR, p. 296.
“That’s us!”: TPOAR, p. 294.
old nemesis from the 1930s, Granville Hicks: By 1957, Hicks had left the Communist Party. In the Times, he was identified as a literary consultant to The New Leader, a biweekly magazine published by the American Labor Conference on International Affairs.
“howl” by a harpy: Granville Hicks, “A Parable of Buried Talents,” NYT, October 13, 1957, p. 266.
“where it’s equally easy to hate both sides”: Earl P. Brown, “From the U.S.A.,” Washington Post, October 13, 1957, p. E6.
compared her ideas on mysticism to those of Hitler: Earl Wagenknecht, “As Thriller or Parable, Novel Is Absorbing,” Chicago Daily Tribune, October 13, 1957, p. B1.
“Is it a novel? Is it a nightmare?”: “The Solid-Gold Dollar Sign,” Time, October 14, 1957.
“display of grotesque eccentricity”: Robert R. Kirsch, “The Book Report,” Los Angeles Times, October 15, 1957, p. B5.
“the globe’s two billion or so incompetents”: Donald Malcolm, “The New Rand Atlas,” The New Yorker, October 26, 1957, pp. 194–96.
“crackbrained ratiocination”: “Come the Revolution,” Atlantic Monthly, November 1957, pp. 249–50.
ambition and intellectual intensity: John Chamberlain, “Ayn Rand’s Political Parable and Thundering Melodrama,” New York Herald Tribune, October 15, 1957, section 6, p. 1.
“Ayn Rand is destined to rank in history”: TPOAR, p. 298.
“I am now able to say it”: Unpublished letter to AR from William C. Mullendore, William C. Mullendore Papers, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, Subject Series, box 23, folder “Ayn Rand.”
“a cogent analysis of the evils”: Unpublished letter from LVM, January 23, 1958, courtesy of Bettina Bien Greaves.
“No one writes about the bureaucrats the way Ayn Rand does”: Author interview with Bettina Bien Greaves, December 22, 2006.
“we thought that we were going to be hooked”: BC’s oral history interview, p. 945.
partly in an attempt: “Godless Capitalism,” pp. 359–85.
“To a gas chamber—go!”: Whittaker Chambers, “Big Sister Is Watching You,” National Review, December 28, 1957, p. 120.
“is not, and by its essential nature cannot conceivably be”: Whittaker Chambers, Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers’ Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1969, pp. 227–28, cited in “Godless Capitalism,” p. 375.
She had expected attacks: AR claimed never to have read the Whittaker Chambers review of AS (LOAR, p. 572) but to have been told about it by others.
Anguished, she asked Barbara: TPOAR, p. 304.
285 “even earlier than I imagined”: MYWAR, p. 203.
Paterson sent an indignant letter: The Woman and the Dynamo, p. 351.
if so, she refused to go: Author interview with WFB, June 12, 2006.
lampooned her: William F. Buckley, Jr., Getting It Right (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2003).
“I believe she died under the impression”: Author interview with WFB, June 12, 2006.
thought that he had been drinking: MYWAR, p. 201.
“She was a valiant human being”: Author interview with WFB, June 12, 2006.
confused its author’s increasingly authoritarian personality: TPOAR, p. 302.
“To hear a woman”: “Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged.“
“Her personal bitterness was at odds with her philosophy”: “An Interview with Barbara Branden,” p. 8.
ascended to number five: “Best Seller List,” NYT Book Review, October 27, 1957, p. 4.
Five years after its first printing: TON, December 1962 (vol. 1, no. 12), p. 47.
150,000 copies a year: Author correspondence with Richard Ralston, publishing manager of ARI, March 3, 2004.
the intelligent common man: Author interview with JKT, May 21, 2004.
“the largely abandoned class”: Claudia Roth Pierpont, “Twilight of the Goddess,” The New Yorker, July 24, 1995, p. 76.
Other notes identify: JOAR, pp. 706–716.
She would resume musing: “Two Possible