Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [321]
“We’re just incompatible”: MYWAR, p. 313.
he could barely tolerate the strain: JD, p. 359.
Once separated and living apart: Author correspondence with BB, June 27, 2008.
when he begged for time: TPOAR, p. 336.
The Psychology of Self-Esteem: This would be published, sans introduction, in 1969, after AR had broken with him, under the auspices of a publishing company founded for this purpose by Objectivist Ed Nash. The book has never been out of print.
a work of genius: JD, p. 370.
“Just wait until [Ayn] writes the introduction”: “The Liberty Interview: Barbara Branden,” p. 57. In 1996, NB told an interviewer about the introduction, which was never written: “I believe that was owed me, after all the work I had done fighting for her work and all the compliments she had paid my book” (“Interview with Nathaniel Branden,” p. 7).
four hundred thousand dollars: Ayn Rand, “To Whom It May Concern,” The Objectivist, May 1968 issue (published October 1968), p. 450.
affordable on paper: A year later the NBI business manager Wilfred Schwartz was able to sell the lease to a new tenant for a premium of $55,000 (author correspondence with BB, June 27, 2008).
always paid back in the fall: Author correspondence with BB, June 27, 2008.
Rand had told Nathaniel not to bother her: Author correspondence with BB, September 17, 2008.
was only mildly put out: “To Whom It May Concern,” p. 452.
“I felt we were really in trouble”: Unpublished taped interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
“Patrecia’s involvement”: JD, p. 370.
expected it to open: TPOAR, p. 342.
considered Patrecia: Files from 1967–68 on NBI Theater, Inc., and on production budgets, schedules, etc., for the aborted production of BB’s adaptation of TF, courtesy of MSC; author correspondence with BB, June 27, 2008.
FIFTEEN: EITHER/OR (THE BREAK): 1967–1968
“Pity for the guilty”: Rand, The Romantic Manifesto, p. 131.
a book-length essay: Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, The Objectivist, July 1966 to February 1967; republished as a paperback original by the Objectivist Press in June 1967. An expanded paperback edition is available from Plume.
Never among her popular works: As of mid-2008, the paperback edition had sold about 146,000 copies, according to ARI.
352n. In Ayn Rand’s view: “Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology,” part 1, The Objectivist, July 1966, p. 103.
and a fiery, farsighted speech:“The Wreckage of the Consensus,” April and May 1967, reprinted in The Objectivist, April 1967, pp. 241–45, 257–64.
352 Marital counseling having ended: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 327. In notes to herself, AR recalled that it was NB who asked for the “psychotherapy” she provided; TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 327. BB recalled that the sessions were an example of AR’s increasingly compulsive tendency to “psychologize;” “It’s a Dirty Job, But …”
placed their active relationship on hold: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 327.
He rationalized, improvised: TPOAR, p. 338.
he knew “years ago”: TPOARC, RPJ, November 27, 1967, p. 243.
“I feel real fear”: TPOARC, RPJ, November 27, 1967, p. 241.
Also, although he said he wanted: TPOARC, RPJ, February 14, 1968, p. 287.
“business, theatrical business”: TPOARC, RPJ, November 27, 1967, p. 242.
“in a man of Branden’s rationality”: TPOARC, RPJ, November 27, 1967, p. 241.
she had been unable to “project”: TPOARC, RPJ, November 27, 1967, p. 243.
“or, rather, admired”: TPOARC, RPJ, November 27, 1967, p. 240; “I do not fully believe that hypothesis,” she wrote regarding NB’s possible narcissism.
“Here is a man who”: TPOARC, RPJ, November 27, 1967, p. 244.
“on the same level as Kant and
Hegel”: The Ayn Rand Cult, p. 151.
“vanity, flattery-seeking”: TPOARC, RPJ, January 25, 1968, p. 256.
To “break with him entirely”: TPOARC, RPJ, November 27, 1967, p. 244.
By the late 1960s, her media appearances: OHP, Hank and Erika Holzer, February 9, 2006.
“You won’t attack me?”: The net-worktapes