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NOTES TO PAGES 144–155
30. Murray Rothbard, “Two Walters Interview Transcript,” Rothbard Papers, Ludwig
von Mises Institute, Auburn, AL.
31. Rothbard to AR, October 3, 1957, “Letters 1957 July–December,” Rothbard
Papers.
32. William F. Buckley Jr., “Refl ections on Election Eve,” National Review,
November 3, 1956.
33. Biographical Interview 16.
34. Ibid.
35. Barbara’s and Nathan’s name change has generated almost as much mythology as
Rand’s. Both explain the change as simply a matter of aesthetic preference, rejecting the
rumor that Branden is of Hebrew derivation (“ben Rand”) or was deliberately chosen
to incorporate Rand’s name.
36. Robert Hessen, interview with author, December 11, 2007.
37. Journals, 610.
38. Edward Purcell, The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientifi c Naturalism and the
Problem of Value (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1973).
39. Journals, 481.
40. Rand’s usage of Benzedrine in the 1940s is well documented, and according to
several sources, she continued to take a similar prescription on a daily basis until the
1970s. See Passion of Ayn Rand, 173, and Anne Heller, Ayn Rand and the World She Made
(New York: Doubleday, 2009), 304–305.
41. ARC, 03–58; Leonard Peikoff, Oral History Interview, ARP; Mike Wallace, Oral
History Interview, ARP.
42. Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (New York,
Penguin, 2007), 41. Contrary to Justin Martin in Greenspan: The Man behind the Money
(Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 2000) and Jerome Tuccille in Alan Shrugged: Alan Greenspan,
the World’s Most Powerful Banker (New York: Wiley, 2002), both of whom portray
Nathaniel Branden as playing a major role, Greenspan remembers Rand herself as the
most infl uential in establishing his relationship with Objectivism. Greenspan, personal
communication to author, February 27, 2009. Hiram Haydn, Words and Faces (New
York: Harcourt College, 1973), 259.
43. Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence, 53. Justin Martin, Greenspan, 45. The impact
of Arthur Burns on Greenspan is described in Tuccille and Justin Martin, Greenspan.
44. Author interview with Martin Anderson, January 1, 2008.
45. Leonard Peikoff, “My Thirty Years with Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir,” The
Objectivist Forum, June 1987, 2; Sylvester Petro, Oral History ARP.
46. Murray Rothbard to Richard Cornuelle, August 11, 1954, Rothbard Papers.
47. Murray Rothbard to AR, October 8, 1957, Rothbard Papers.
48. Ibid.
49. Ibid.
50. Richard Cornuelle, Oral History, ARP.
51. N. Branden, Judgment Day, 129.
52. Robert Hessen, interview with author, December 11, 2007.
53. Ibid., 116.
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