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15. Robert Hinck, “New Group Arises to Battle SDS,” Columbia Owl, March 29,
1967, 1.
16. Frank Bubb, “Demonstration or Coercion?,” Washington University Student Life,
December 13, 1968, 9.
17. Committee for Defense of Property Rights, For a Civilized University, pamphlet,
1967, ARP 005–18A.
18. Earl Wood to AR, January 6, 1966 and May 8, 1967, ARP 005–18A. The conference
proceeded as planned and attracted nearly two hundred participants.
19. Ayn Rand, The Objectivist, April 1967, 256.
20. Jarret Wollstein, “Objectivism—A New Orthodoxy?,” The New Guard. October
1967, 14–21.
21. Numerous eyewitness accounts bear this out. See Joy Parker, letter to the editor,
Playboy, June 1964;“Born Eccentric,” Newsweek, March 27, 1961, 104; John Kobler, “The
Curious Cult of Ayn Rand,” Saturday Evening Post, November, 11, 1961.
22. Don Ventura, Oral History, ARP; Ilona Royce Smithkin, Oral History, ARP. Anne
Heller suggests that Frank may have suffered from Dupuytren’s syndrome, which is
often linked to alcohol abuse. Anne C. Heller, Ayn Rand and the World She Made (New
York: Doubleday, 2009), 357.
23. Patrecia Scott to AR, April 6, 1967, ARP 003–13A.
24. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 35th anniversary ed. (1957; New York: Penguin,
1992), 460.
25. Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It? (New York: Signet, 1982), 17; Rand, Atlas
Shrugged, 962.
26. Nathaniel Branden, “Intellectual Ammunition Department: Reason and Emotion,”
The Objectivist Newsletter 1, no. 1 (1962): 3.
27. Biographical Interview 17, April 19, 1961. Not surprisingly, Objectivist psychotherapy
has spawned what Justin Raimondo calls “a whole literature of recovery,”
including Ellen Plasil, Therapist (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985); Jeff Walker,
The Ayn Rand Cult (Chicago: Open Court Press, 1999); Sidney Greenberg, Ayn
Rand and Alienation: The Platonic Idealism of the Objective Ethics and a Rational
Alternative (San Francisco: Sidney Greenberg, 1977). Branden himself described much
of his later psychological work as an effort to undo the damage caused by Objectivist
psychotherapy. See N. Branden, “Benefi ts and Hazards of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand,”
available at www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/articles_essays/benefi ts_and_hazards.
html [February 23, 2009].
28. The fi nal stages of their relationship are traced in detail by Barbara Branden, The
Passion of Ayn Rand (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986); Nathaniel Branden, Judgment
Day: My Years with Ayn Rand (Boston: Houghton Miffl in, 1989); James Valliant, The
Passion of Ayn Rand’s Critics (Dallas: Durban House, 2005).
29. Ayn Rand, “An Answer to Readers: About a Woman President,” The Objectivist,
December 1968, 561–63. For an exploration of Rand’s ideas about gender, see Susan
Love Brown, “Ayn Rand: The Woman Who Would Not Be President,” in Feminist
Interpretations of Ayn Rand, ed. Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Matthew Sciabarra
(University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999), 275–98.
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