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A NEW CREDO OF FREEDOM 69
that her manuscript was languishing in obscurity, he pressed his services
on Rand. He had contacts in the publishing world and was eager
to help her out. Reluctantly she agreed to let him submit her chapters to
Little, Brown, a publisher she viewed as relatively free from Communist
infl uence.
At fi rst it looked as if she had struck gold. An editor at the house pronounced
the chapters “almost genius” and arranged to have dinner with
Rand. There he probed her political views, assuming she was an anarchist.
Rand set him straight: “I was telling him all about what I think of
the New Deal, why this book is anti–New Deal, why I am for free enterprise,
and what passages and what proves it.” 4 It was a signifi cant shift.
Only a few years earlier she had been assuring prospective editors that
her novel would not be political; now she insisted that her latest literary
suitor recognize its deeper meaning.
Rand’s spirits during this period were low. She had completely
stopped working on the manuscript, and her work at Paramount further
dampened her ambitions. Each day as she picked through yet another
potboiler that the studio had bought, she moaned to Frank about the
trash that was published while her work remained unnoticed. He was at
once sympathetic, supportive, and suitably outraged, but with a gentle
touch that cracked Rand’s despair. “I know how you feel,” he told her.
“Here you are throwing pearls and you’re not getting even a porkchop
in return.” 5 Rand crowed in delight and gave the line to one of her characters.
After Little, Brown passed on the manuscript, Frank rose to the
occasion masterfully. Rand was ready to junk the book entirely. Frank
stayed up with her one long, terrible night, urging her to continue, reaffi
rming her genius, helping her believe the world was not the cold and
hostile place it seemed. That was the night he “saved” the book, earning
his place on the dedication page.
Despite her renewed resolve to fi nish the book, Rand’s primary interest
remained the new political organization. She chafed at Pollock’s
slowness in lining up converts and cash cows. George Sokolsky, a conservative
columnist, came onboard at once. By June Pollock and Rand
had discovered another important ally, DeWitt Emery. Based in Ohio,
Emery owned a small manufacturing company that produced letterhead.
A foot soldier of the anti–New Deal forces, he doubled as head
of the National Small Business Men’s Association, a lobbying concern.
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