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54. Frank is described as an alcoholic in his later years by Barbara Branden, The
Passion of Ayn Rand, 272–73, 339, 366, 384, and Nathaniel Branden, My Years with Ayn
Rand, 330, but this claim has been vigorously disputed by James Valliant in The Passion
of Ayn Rand’s Critics (Dallas, TX: Durban House, 2005), 141–47. The dispute boils down
to the reliability of sources whom the Brandens cite as witnesses to Frank’s drinking
habits. Firm diagnoses of the dead are always tenuous, but given Frank’s family history,
the pressures he was under, and the testimony of observers, it is not unreasonable
to conclude that Frank’s use of alcohol was, at the very least, unhealthy. Anne Heller
reaches a similar conclusion in Ayn Rand and the World She Made, 494.
55. Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 939. Allan Gotthelf provides a helpful breakdown of the
speech in “Galt’s Speech in Five Sentences (and 40 Questions),” in Essays on Ayn Rand’s
Atlas Shrugged, ed. Robert Mayhew (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009).
56. Biographical Interview 17.
57. Journals, 480.
58. After Atlas Shrugged was published Rand did write fragmentary notes for one
additional novel, entitled To Lorne Dieterling. More a therapeutic exercise than a serious
attempt at another book, To Lorne Dieterling was to feature a female hero struggling to
retain a sense of joy against a hostile world. Journals, 706–715, 913–927.
59. Journals, 673.
60. Biographical Interview 18, April 25, 1961; Hiram Haydn, Words and Faces (New
York: Harcourt College, 1974), 260–61; Bennett Cerf, At Random (New York: Random
House, 1977), 249–50. Rand’s account differs from Haydn’s in several specifi c details,
mostly on how actively Random House sought her as an author. I draw primarily on
Rand’s account since it was recorded closer in time to the actual events and because
Rand was privy to negotiations with her agent and Haydn was not.
61. Mickey Wright, Oral History, ARP.
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1. Robert Hessen, interview with author, December 7, 2007.
2. “The Solid Gold Dollar Sign,” Time, October 14, 1957, 128. A prime example of a
reviewer having fun at Rand’s expense is Donald Malcolm, “The New Rand Atlas,” The
New Yorker, October 26, 1957, 194. There were a few exceptions to the generally negative
assessment of Atlas Shrugged, mostly from right-leaning publications. See Paul Jordan-
Smith, “Ideas Fill New Work, but Still It’s a Novel,” Los Angeles Times, October 6, 1957, E7;
John Chamberlain, “A Reviewer’s Notebook: Atlas Shrugged,” The Freeman, December
1957, 53–56, M. E. Davis, “Reading for Pleasure: Creeping Collapse,” Wall Street Journal,
October 10, 1957; Richard McLaughlin, “The Lady Has a Message . . . ,” American Mercury,
January 1958, 144–46.
3. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 35th anniversary ed. (1957; New York: Penguin, 1992),
429. Subsequent citations are referenced in the text.
4. R. M. Lynch, Standard Slag Company, Youngstown, OH, to AR November 20,
1957, box 098–03C, ARP.
5. This theme is developed further in Andrew Hoberek, The Twilight of the Middle
Class: Post–World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work (Princeton, NJ:
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