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Liberty Press, 1991), xxi; Rand, “An Attempt at the Beginning of an Autobiography,” ARP,
078–15x, reprinted in Journals, 65.
18. Paterson’s career and thought are described in a recent a full-length biography:
Stephen Cox, The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America
(New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2004). Her time at the Herald is also briefl y described
in Joan Shelley Rubin, The Making of Middlebrow Culture (Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1992), 79–80.
19. Rose Wilder Lane to AR, undated, ARP 143-LN3.
20. Biographical Interview 14.
21. Details of the Rand-Paterson relationship are given in Barbara Branden, The
Passion of Ayn Rand (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1986), 164–66, and
Cox, The Woman and the Dynamo, especially chapters 14, 18, 22, 24.
22. Maine fi rst elaborated the distinction between status and contract societies in
Ancient Law (1861; New York: Henry Holt, 1864). Spencer refers to this idea on the fi rst
page of The Man versus the State (1884), and Sumner highlights it in the fi rst chapter
of What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883; Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 2003).
In later libertarian writing this distinction would pass for common sense. Rand hurled
it at religious conservatives in the 1960s, accusing them of advocating a return to the
“ancient, frozen, status society.” See Rand, “Conservatism: An Obituary,” in Capitalism:
The Unknown Ideal (New York: Penguin, 1967), 198.
23. Carl Ryant, Profi t’s Prophet: Garet Garrett (Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna
University Press, 1989). Paterson’s interest in Garrett is described in Cox, The Woman
and the Dynamo, 126–28.
24. Biographical Interview 14.
25. Rand, “Dear Mr.——,” undated fund-raising letter, ARP 146-PO4.
26. Ibid.
27. Channing Pollock to DeWitt Emery, September 6, 1941, ARP 146-PO4.
28. Quoted in Mayhew, Essays on Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, 68. Isabel Paterson
also claimed to have infl uenced Bobbs-Merrill to accept the book. See Anne C. Heller,
Ayn Rand and the World She Made (New York: Doubleday, 2009), 144.
29. AR to Odgen, February 19, 1942, Letters, 63.
30. Biographical Interview 15, March 31, 1961.
31. Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 50th anniversary ed. (1943; The Fountainhead.
50th anniversary ed. 1943; New York: Signet, 1993), 675. Subsequent citations are from
this edition and are referenced in the text.
32. AR to Monroe Shakespeare, June 12, 1943, ARP 004–15C.
33. Ayn Rand, The Art of Fiction, ed. Tore Boeckmann (New York: Penguin, 2000), 163.
34. AR to Paul Smith, March 13, 1965, ARP 39-07A; Barbara Branden, “Ayn Rand: The
Reluctant Feminist,” in Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, ed. Mimi Reisel Gladstein
and Chris Sciabarra (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999), 37.
35. Phyllis Schlafl y, for one, stopped reading the book when she reached this
scene. Schlafl y, Feminist Fantasies (Dallas: Spence, 2003), 23. The Fountainhead
may be compared to romance novels, which use rape as a standard trope. In these
popular works rape is essential to male character development and one of many
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