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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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The early stages of this project were supported by grants from the
University of California, Berkeley, History Department. I received
travel funding from the Institute for Humane Studies and the Herbert
Hoover Presidential Library and a summer stipend from the National
Endowment for the Humanities. The Mises Institute generously offered
me room and board during my stay in Auburn. A W. Glenn Campbell
and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship, awarded by the Hoover
Institution, Stanford University, gave me a full year to write and research.
In the last critical stages of writing I received support through the
University of Virginia Excellence in Diversity Fellowship, Professors as
Writers Program, summer grant, and the Digital Classroom Initiative.
In the eight years I worked on this project I have benefi ted from the
support, advice, and friendship of many people. Apologies in advance to
anyone I may have left out. I alone am responsible for all interpretations,
arguments, errors, or omissions in this book.
At the University of California, Berkeley, my advisor, David Hollinger,
guided me expertly from seminar paper to fi nished dissertation. I will
never forget the gleam in his eye when I proposed the topic of Ayn Rand.
His confi dence in me has been inspiring and his guidance indispensible.
I also benefi ted immensely from the critical skepticism of Kerwin Klein
and the prompt attentions of Mark Bevir. As I fi nished writing, Eitan
Grossman and Kristen Richardson provided valuable editorial support.
From the beginning of the project, Eitan urged me to think carefully
about the nature, signifi cance, and depth of Rand’s intellectual appeal.
The rich secondary literature on Rand, which I describe more fully in
my concluding Essay on Sources, provided an invaluable starting point
for my inquiry. I am grateful to the broader community of scholars and
writers interested in Rand who paved the way before me.
Many historians have read all or part of the manuscript. I benefi ted
from the insightful comments and questions of Joyce Mao, Jason Sokol,
and members of David Hollinger’s intellectual history discussion group,
especially Nils Gilman and Justin Suran. Nelson Lichtenstein, Charles
Capper, Thomas Bender, Louis Masur, anonymous readers for Modern
Intellectual History, and the editorial board of Reviews in American
History helped me perfect parts of the dissertation for publication.
Michael Kazin, Daniel Horowitz, and Don Critchlow read the entire
dissertation and suggested fruitful ways to reconceptualize it as a book.
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