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"Objectively Speaking includes half a century of print and broadcast interviews drawn from the Ayn Rand Archives. The thirty-two interviews in this collection, edited by Marlene Podritske and Peter Schwartz, include print interviews from the 1930s and edited transcripts of radio and television interviews from the 1940s through 1981"--Inside jacket.

Philosopher phenomenon Ayn Rand tells her life story in her own words, sharing her private videos and archives.

Ayn Rand remains a truly significant figure of modern philosophy. Her unique vision of a world in which man, relying on reason, acts wholly for his own good is skillfully developed and illustrated in her most famous novels, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. But Rand's first novel, We the Living, a lesser-known but no less important book, offers an early form of the author's nascent philosophy - the philosophy Rand later called Objectivism. In...

"Based on a series of lectures given in 1983 by Dr. Leonard Peikoff, 'Understanding Objectivism' offers a deeper and more profound study of Ayn Rand's philosophy, and outlines a methodology of how to approach the study of Objectivism and apply its principles to one's life. For the legions of readers who treasure 'Atlas Shrugged' and 'The Fountainhead', and who savor cogent analysis and provocative discussion of Ayn Rand's thoughts and beliefs, 'Understanding...

A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.

A computer-generated plague sweeps the world, killing every black person in sight. This is one of a number of doomsday events contained in this futuristic novel where mayhem follows mayhem. In another, a shark is creating havoc in New York's sewer system.

The bestselling biography of one of the 20th century's most remarkable and controversial writers. Author Barbara Branden, who knew Rand for nineteen years, provides a matchless portrait of this fiercely private and complex woman.

Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought.

"Speculation abounds about the relationship between Frank Lloyd Wright and Ayn Rand. Art, architecture, philosophy, film and politics come together in this exploration, which reveals much about both Wright and Rand and cements their connection. It also discusses Wright's place as a Hollywood architect and offers telling set designs and architectural images from the 1949 production of The Fountainhead"--Jacket.