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NOTES TO PAGES 44–48
16. Journals, 74.
17. Journals, 93. In her early notebooks characters are listed by names that Rand
ultimately changed (e.g., Everett Monkton Flent became Ellsworth Monkton Toohey
and Peter Wilson became Peter Keating). For clarity’s sake, I refer to all characters
by their fi nal, published names, just as I refer to “Second-Hand Lives” as The
Fountainhead.
18. Journals, 142. As her note suggests, Rand’s claim to have taken only general
inspiration from Wright’s life is false, for many specifi c incidents from his career surface
in The Fountainhead. Roark’s Stoddard Temple closely resembles Wright’s famous
Unity Temple, conceived as “a temple to man.” As does Roark, Wright had a model
for a sculpture pose on the construction site of Midway Gardens. Both incidents are
described in Wright’s autobiography, which Rand read while researching her novel.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Autobiography of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Longmans,
Green, 1932), 154, 184.
19. Laski notebook, ARP 086–20X. These politically incorrect musings about women
are not included in the published versions of the notebook, found in Journals, 113–15;
“Second-Hand Lives,” March 28, 1937, 85, ARP 167–01D. Rand’s use of the term “nance,”
contemporary slang for a homosexual man, does not appear in the published version
of these notes, found in Journals, 109. Merrill Schleier investigates Rand’s presentation
of masculinity and gender in “Ayn Rand and King Vidor’s Film The Fountainhead:
Architectural Modernism, the Gendered Body, and Political Ideology,” Journal of the
Society of Architectural Historians 61, no. 3 (2002): 310–31, and Skyscraper Cinema:
Architecture and Gender in American Film (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2009).
20. Biographical Interview 11.
21. Biographical Interview 11.
22. Documents are in ARP 136–25b, also reprinted in Jeff Britting, Ayn Rand
(New York: Overlook Press, 2004), 54.
23. Rand’s last contact from her family came at the beginning of 1939, when they
exchanged telegrams marking the New Year. Anna Borisnova to AR, January 3, 1939,
postcard 475, Russian Family Correspondence, ARP.
24. According to members of the O’Connor family, Rand had an abortion in the
early 1930s, which they helped pay for. Rand never mentioned this incident, but it
accords with her emphasis on career and her unequivocal support for abortion rights.
Anne C. Heller, Ayn Rand and the World She Made (New York: Doubleday, 2009), 128.
25. Biographical Interview 11.
26. Ibid.
27. See, for example, Garet Garrett and Bruce Ramsey, Salvos against the New Deal
(Caldwell, ID: Caxton Press, 2002); George Wolfskill and John A. Hudson, All but the
People: Franklin D. Roosevelt and His Critics (London: Macmillan, 1969). Usually termed
the “Old Right,” Roosevelt’s political opposition is described in Sheldon Richman,
“New Deal Nemesis: The ‘Old Right’ Jeffersonians,” Independent Review 1, no. 2 (1996):
201–48; Murray Rothbard, The Betrayal of the American Right (Auburn, AL: Ludwig
von Mises Institute, 2007); Leo Ribuffo, The Old Christian Right (Philadelphia: Temple
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