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NOTES TO PAGES 214–220
1. Adriana Slifka, “Ayn Rand Pulls TV Mail,” Youngstown Vindicator, December 19,
1967, ARP 006–4A; Edward Kuhn, New American Library, to AR, February 28, 1968, ARP
088–02A.
2. Turner Advertising Company erected the billboards in January 1967 in seven
major southern cities: Atlanta (80 billboards), Covington, Kentucky (20), Charleston
(24), Chattanooga (32), Richmond (40), and Roanoke (20). The cost was approximately
eight thousand dollars, paid by Turner himself. “It’s Message in Question on Rebirth
of Man’s Spirit,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, February 5, 1967, 21; Ted Turner to Paul
Gitlin, March 1, 1967, ARP 003–07x.
3. Although NBI does not appear to have kept exact numbers of students enrolled,
based on the fi gures for these two years a conservative estimate would put the total
number of students in the range of at least ten thousand (an average of two thousand
students over at least fi ve years; NBI existed from 1958 to 1968). The institute claimed a
mailing list of forty thousand people.
4. Jerome Tuccille, It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand (New York: Stein and Day, 1971),
23; Karen Minto and David Oyerly, “Interview with Henry Mark Holzer,” Full Context,
July/August 2001, 5; Kay Nolte Smith quoted in Jeff Walker, The Ayn Rand Cult (La Salle,
IL: Open Court Press, 1999), 175.
5. Nathaniel Branden, “A Report to Our Readers,” The Objectivist Newsletter,
December 1963, 47. In 1965 Nathan, accompanied by Rand, delivered the opening lecture
for new NBI courses in Boston and Washington, D.C.
6. Basic Principles of Objectivism, NBI pamphlet, ARP 017–05B.
7. Ayn Rand, “Cashing In: The Student Rebellion,” in Capitalism: The Unknown
Ideal (New York: Penguin, 1967), 251.
8. AR to John Golden, July 10, 1966, ARP 042–02B.
9. Draft media release, 001–01A; AR to L. Kopacz, March 20, 1966, ARP 039–07A;
Doris Gordon, “My Personal Contacts with Ayn Rand,” Full Context, March/April
2001, 7.
10. Nathaniel Branden, “A Message to Our Readers,” The Objectivist Newsletter, April
1965, 17.
11. Ibid.
12. Rothbard’s activities during this time are covered in Brian Doherty, Radicals for
Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern Libertarian Movement (New York:
Public Affairs, 2007); Justin Raimondo, An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N.
Rothbard (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000). Rothbard’s greatest coup was placing
an article in Ramparts, the fl agship magazine of the student left. Murray Rothbard,
“Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal,” Ramparts, June 15, 1968, 48–52.
13. Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences (Chicago: Regnery, 1948). Though
Weaver disliked the title, which his publisher suggested, it captured an essential component
of the conservative worldview. Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative
(New York: McFadden-Bartell, 1960), 10–11.
14. Rand, “Cashing In,” 269, 268.
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