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A NEW CREDO OF FREEDOM 89
the freedom of your career. But it would give you freedom from the fear
of unemployment” (553). Toohey’s most successful method, however, is
to create a Union of Wynand Employees, which he uses as power base to
take over the newspaper. Despite its high-minded rhetoric, the union is
intended to benefi t just one man.
Rand also pushed past traditional libertarian skepticism of charity
to assault the very concept of altruism itself. Writers like Paterson and
Sumner stressed that benevolence should not be compelled by the state,
but supported private charity undertaken voluntarily. By contrast, Roark
told his audience, “The only good which men can do to one another and
the only statement of their proper relationship is—Hands off !” (683).
Revising her earlier binary of Active Man and Passive Man, Rand now
drew a primal distinction between independence and dependence and
presented morality as a stark choice of either self-sacrifi ce or egoism.
Unlike other libertarians Rand would let no hint of “social conception”
taint her individualism.
As she neared the end of the project Rand was working at fever pitch,
thanks to her new medication. She was thrilled by the long hours the drug
made possible, freely telling friends about this latest discovery. In a few
short months she had sliced the novel’s length, reshaped its philosophical
implications, and given a fi nal polish to characters that had lived in her
mind for nearly a decade. And she had done all this while holding down
a part-time job. But Benzedrine had a boomerang effect. By the time the
book was complete Rand’s doctor diagnosed her as close to a nervous
breakdown and ordered her to take two weeks of complete rest. 40
Exhausted but happy, Rand decamped to Isabel Paterson’s country
house in Connecticut with Frank in tow. There she shocked Paterson by
announcing she expected sales of at least 100,000. Otherwise she would
consider herself a failure, Rand tactlessly informed Paterson, author
of eight novels, none of which had sold more than several thousand
copies. Although Paterson had been unfailingly supportive of Rand’s
writing, she was far from confi dent that Rand’s novel would sell. The
Fountainhead was not to her taste—too many adjectives, too much
drama. She even declined to review the book for the Herald Tribune, a
decision she carefully kept from Rand.
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