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THE REAL ROOT OF EVIL 101
Just as she had once dreamed, Rand was being tapped to head committees
and lead drives, to lend her fame to a political cause. She also
joined the board of directors of the American Writers Association, an
alliance of writers formed to oppose the “Cain Plan,” a proposed authors’
authority. Under the plan, which was supported by the Screenwriter’s
Guild and a union of radio writers, the new authority would own copyright
and marketing rights of authors’ products. Rand and others immediately
detected Communist agents at work. The American Writers
Association sent representatives to a meeting of the Authors League
in New York, held several meetings, and began publishing a newsletter.
Rand was active in bringing several of her Hollywood connections
aboard, where they joined a prominent line-up of literary stars, including
Dorothy Thompson, Hans Christian Andersen, Margaret Mitchell,
and Zora Neale Hurston. Through them Rand met another group
of right-wing activists, including Suzanne LaFollette, Clare Boothe
Luce, Isaac Don Levine, and John Chamberlain. When the Cain Plan
was soundly defeated, the American Writers Association attempted to
extend its ambit to a defense of writers who had suffered from political
discrimination, but it soon lapsed into inactivity. 3
Rand was also taken up by business conservatives such as Leonard
Read, head of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, who invited her
to dinner with several associates soon after she arrived in California.
The driving force behind the dinner was R. C. Hoiles, publisher of the
L.A.-area Santa Ana Register. Hoiles had given his family copies of The
Fountainhead, praised the book in his column, and swapped letters with
Rand while she was still in New York. The dinner created no lasting bond
between the two, perhaps because Hoiles liked to support his libertarianism
with quotes from the Bible, but he continued to promote Rand in
his Freedom Newspapers, a chain that eventually grew to sixteen papers
in over seven western and southwestern states. 4
Rand was more impressed by William C. Mullendore, an outspoken
executive at Con Edison. Mullendore admired The Fountainhead and
in turn she considered him a “moral crusader” and the only industrialist
who understood “that businessmen need a philosophy and that
the issue is intellectual.” It was Mullendore who had converted Read
to the “freedom philosophy,” and under his tutelage Read transformed
his sleepy branch of the Chamber of Commerce into a mouthpiece for
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