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Press, 2009); Kevin Mattson, Rebels All! A Short History of the Conservative Mind in
Postwar America (Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008).
14. Rand found the weekly column time-consuming, and syndicated sales were poor.
Rex Barley to AR, December 14, 1962, ARP 045–11A. Rand’s articles are collected and
published under different titles in Ayn Rand, The Ayn Rand Column, ed. Peter Schwartz
(Oceanside, CA: Second Renaissance Books, 1991).
15. Ayn Rand, “Check Your Premises,” The Objectivist Newsletter 1, no. 1 (1962): 1.
16. Edith Efron, “The Feminine Mystique,” The Objectivist Newsletter 2, no. 7
(1963): 26.
17. Al Ramus, Oral History, ARP. Edith Efron later became a conservative journalist
who focused on media bias. Efron, The News Twisters (Los Angeles: Nash, 1971). She
was also a ghostwriter for Treasury Secretary William Simon, A Time for Truth (New
York: Reader’s Digest Press, 1978). Rand’s interviews for the Columbia radio program
are reproduced in Ayn Rand, Objectively Speaking: Ayn Rand Interviewed, ed. Marlene
Podritske and Peter Schwartz (New York: Lexington Books, 2009). AR to Hugh Hefner,
March 14, 1964, ARP 060–14A.
18. Mike Wallace, Oral History, ARP; Frederick Feingersh, Oral History, ARP.
19. Ed Barthelmes to Bob Parker, Time, Inc., mimeographed stringer report, February
18, 1960, Box 6, Isabel Paterson Papers, Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, IA.
20. Some examples of Rand’s infl uence on college syllabi: Rand’s essay “Faith and
Force” was reprinted in William M. Jones, Stages of Composition: A College Reader
(Boston: D. C. Heath, 1964); see Eleanor Morris to AR, May 15, 1964, ARP 001–04A.
Atlas Shrugged was assigned as a term paper topic in Rhetoric 102 at the University
of Illinois at Navy Pier, spring 1960, syllabus, Rhetoric 102, ARP 006–02E. Her work
was assigned in social and political philosophy classes at the University of Colorado
in 1964; see John Nelson to AR, April 2, 1964, ARP 100–13B. In 1965 Leonard Peikoff
conducted a graduate seminar at the University of Denver, “The Objectivist Theory
of Knowledge.”
21. Karen Reedstrom, “Interview with Murray Franck,” Full Context, June 1992, 3;
Whit Hancock to AR, April 9, 1966, ARP 040–07C; Karen Reedstrom, “Interview with
Walter Donway,” Full Context, May 1992, 3.
22. See Hilary Putnam, “A Half Century of Philosophy,” and Alexander Nehamas,
“Trends in Recent American Philosophy,” in American Academic Culture in
Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines, ed. Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997). Rand’s willingness to address a general
audience and popularize her concerns marked a return to an earlier ideal of the discipline,
what Bruce Kucklick calls “American public philosophy.” Kucklick, The Rise of
American Philosophy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977), xxiii.
23. Karen Minto and David Oyerly, “Interview with Tom Bethell,” Full Context,
January/February 1999, 1.
24. Michael McElwee to AR, August 24, 1965, ARP 039–07A.
25. Ayn Rand, “The Girl Hunters,” The Objectivist Newsletter 1, no. 10 (1962), 42. This
article also ran as a column in the Los Angeles Times.
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