Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [310]
“spouting these strange ideas”: Author interview with Al Ramrus, March 1, 2007.
Two days later, along came: Author correspondence with Al Ramrus, March 19, 2007.
“was hugely impressed”: Author interview with Al Ramrus, March 1, 2007.
“was inspiring and, by example, empowering”: Author correspondence with Al Ramrus, March 14, 2007.
joined the circle surrounding Rand: Author interview with Al Ramrus, March 1, 2007.
obtained early copies of Atlas Shrugged: OHP interview with Robert Hessen, November 10, 2004.
“since [Ayn’s followers] all have”: Unpublished letter from MR to Richard Cornuelle, August 11, 1954, quoted in Radicals for Capitalism, p. 261.
“the greatest novel ever written”: Unpublished letter from MR to AR, October 3, 1957, copy courtesy of Justin Raimondo.
He also entered into a course of psychotherapy with Branden: “Ayn Rand and Her Movement,” pp. 3, 8.
On the basis of such assurances: Unpublished letter from MR to NB, July 15, 1958, courtesy of Justin Raimondo.
considered him to be an established genius: MYWAR, p. 97.
“Nathan was everybody’s therapist”: “Ayn Rand and Her Movement,” pp. 7, 8.
would get one in 1973: In 1973, NB received his Ph.D. in psychology from the unaccredited California Graduate Institute. In an interview, NB explained that, once settled in California, he opted to obtain a California license to practice marriage and family counseling rather than apply for the “super, super, super tough” license to practice psychotherapy. As a result, he said, he cannot refer to himself in print as a psychologist; “The Liberty Interview: Nathaniel Branden Speaks,” Liberty, September 1999 (vol. 13, no. 9), pp. 41–42.
He had applied for: Jeff Walker, The Ayn Rand Cult (Chicago: Open Court, 1999), p. 156.
obtain certification in New Jersey: Unpublished letter from MR to Kenneth Templeton, September 3, 1958, courtesy of Justin Raimondo; The Ayn Rand Cult, pp. 156–58; “The Liberty Interview: Nathaniel Branden Speaks,” p. 41.
pressure on Rothbard intensified: Murray Rothbard, “My Break with Nathaniel Branden and the Rand Cult,” Liberty, September 1989, p. 30; An Enemy of the State, pp. 125–26.
Educational events were augmented: “My Break with Nathaniel Branden and the Rand Cult,” p. 27; 100 Voices, Howard Odzer, p. 191.
“Why is it you don’t see us more often?”: “My Break with Nathaniel Branden and the Rand Cult,” p. 29.
“Those parties were very hierarchical”: Author interview with Ed Nash, January 6, 2005.
298 “They were absolutely a nightmare”: Author interview with BB, December 16, 2005.
Once, Rand bought a new dining room table: 100 Voices, Shelly Reuben, p. 373.
tragic, “malevolent” Beethoven: Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, March 23, 2004.
she described Brahms as “worthless”: Author correspondence with BB, June 26, 2008.
rushed to give away his collection: He gave them to EK (author interview with EK, July 21, 2006).
When not in his studio painting: 100 Voices, Al Ramrus, p. 163.
Rothbard gave Branden a copy: Unpublished letter from MR to Helmut Schoeck, August 30, 1958, courtesy of Justin Raimondo.
Helmut Schoeck, a well-known scholar: Schoeck is best remembered for his 1969 book Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour. In it, he examined one of AR’s lifelong preoccupations, envy, and defined it as “a drive which lies at the core of man’s life as a social being.” AR made marginal notes in her copy of the book, to the effect that envy is the characteristic of a second-hander, not a universal force that governs the social order (Helmut Schoeck, Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour [Indianapolis, Ind.: Liberty Fund, 1987]; Robert Mayhew, ed., Ayn Rand’s Marginalia [Irvine, Calif.: Second Renaissance, 1995]), p. 98.
one from Rand’s attorney Pincus Berner: Mentioned in an unpublished letter from Helmut Schoeck to James Wiggins, August 13, 1958, courtesy of Justin Raimondo.
The paper, titled: Rothbard, “The Mantle of Science,” unpublished