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59. Edith Efron to AR, dated “Tuesday,” ARP 020–01M. Efron later recovered from the
shock of her expulsion and criticized the conformity of life in the Collective, while remaining
appreciative of Rand’s ideas. Leonard Bogart to author, private communication.
60. Karen Minto, “Interview with Barbara Branden,” Full Context, September/
October 1998, 9.
61. Valliant, The Passion of Ayn Rand’s Critics, 241, 245.
62. Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 50th anniversary ed. (1943; New York: Signet, 1993),
496.
63. See B. Branden, Passion of Ayn Rand, 347; N. Branden, Judgment Day, 387–88.
64. Tod Foster, Oral History, ARP.
65. Karen Reedstrom, “Interview with George Walsh,” Full Context, February 1991,
4. When Rand’s attorney requested letters about Branden to support Rand’s published
claims against him, virtually all of Branden’s close friends, including his sister, submitted
lengthy statements about the faults and fl aws in his character. The material was collected
in response to Branden’s threat of legal action. See fi nding aid, Ayn Rand Papers, Ayn
Rand Institute.
66. Ayn Rand, “To Whom It May Concern,” The Objectivist, May 1968, 449, 457.
According to Rand’s attorney and accountant, her veiled accusations of Branden’s
fi nancial misdealing and theft were baseless. Reedstrom, “Interview with Henry Mark
Holzer.”
67. Nathaniel Branden, “In Answer to Ayn Rand,” in Roy Childs Papers, Box 31,
“Objectivism—Ayn Rand,” Hoover Institute Archives, Stanford University.
68. Reedstrom, “Interview with George Walsh,” 4.
69. National Review, December 17, 1968, 1257.
70. Sandra G. Wells to AR, April 7, 1969, ARP 155–04x.
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1. I use “Objectivist” to indicate persons who considered themselves signifi cantly
infl uenced by Rand, although not in complete agreement with her.
2. In “No War, No Welfare, and No Damn Taxation: The Student Libertarian
Movement, 1968–1972,” in The Vietnam War on Campus: Other Voices, More Distant
Drums, ed. Mark Jason Gilbert (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001), Jonathan Schoenwald
frames the libertarian movement as “a minor third wave of 1960s student activism” and
“the climax of a generation’s efforts” (21, 22). Although Schoenwald is right to identify
connections between the two activist movements, his analysis collapses left and right
and overlooks the very different provenance, goals, and ideologies of each. He suggests
that the Libertarian Party represented the “death blow” to the movement, but my own
research suggests that the Libertarian Party grew out of a thriving subculture in which
students and recent graduates played a key role. The Party ought to be considered the
peak of that subculture rather than its end. See Jennifer Burns, “O Libertarian, Where
Is Thy Sting?,” Journal of Policy History 19, no. 4 (2007): 453–71. See also John L. Kelley,
Bringing the Market Back In: The Political Revitalization of Market Liberalism (New York:
New York University Press, 1997).
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