Letters of Ayn Rand Lectures

Letters of Ayn Rand LecturesBy Ayn Rand Edited by Michael S. Berliner Introduction by Leonard Peikoff Discover the "personal" Ayn Rand in this wondrous collection of her letters. Read what she wrote to an amazing array of peoplefrom Barry Goldwater, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mickey Spillane, to Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Stack and Cecil B. DeMille. Whether she is writing to philosophers, artists, Hollywood celebrities, family members, captains of industry or her admiring fans, her

the role of the subconscious in emotional responses

The essential characteristic of good writing

Chapter 22

Man’s Rights

edited by Harry Binswanger and Leonard Peikoff

introspection

we see the acute awareness she had of all her values

risking a traitor's death

if it is to survive the onslaught of the philosophic underminers of human life

non-condescending attitude toward those less knowledgeable or less intelligent than she—her meticulous concern for the well-being of her guests—her conscientious efforts in composing exactly the right inscription in the book she would give as a gift to a friend

with many examples (from Galileo

by declaring war not on Afghanistan or Iraq