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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com48THE EDUCATION OF AYN RAND, 1905–1943the climax was set everything else in the novel had to remain tentative.Even worse, she felt like “a fake anytime I talk about my new novel,when I don’t yet know the central part of it, when nothing is set.” 26 Shewrithed in agony at her writing desk, caught in her first ever case of “thesquirms,” her phrase for writer’s block.As Rand planned and drafted The Fountainhead her dislike of Rooseveltcontinued to fester. To most Americans, Roosevelt was a hero, a paternalfigure who had soothed their fears and beveled the sharp edgesof economic crisis. He was unquestionably the most popular politicalfigure of the decade, if not the century. But among a small subsetof commentators dark mutterings about Roosevelt were becomingmore common. Criticism came from many quarters. To adherents oftraditional laissez-faire economic doctrine, Roosevelt was foolhardyin his clumsy attempts to right the economy with state power. To hisopponents Roosevelt was a virtual dictator, wantonly trampling on theConstitution as he expanded the government’s reach into business,law, and agriculture. Like few presidents before, his actions spawned acottage industry dedicated to attacking him, known as the “Roosevelthaters.” 27Rand avidly consumed this literature. Mencken remained a particularfavorite. She had first been drawn to his work by their shared interestin Nietzsche. Now she began regularly reading American Mercury, themagazine he founded, and absorbed his growing suspicion of Roosevelt.She also followed the writing of Albert Jay Nock, a magazine editor,essayist, and the author of Our Enemy, the State. Nock and Menckenwere the first to call themselves “libertarians,” a new coinage meant tosignify their allegiance to individualism and limited government, nowthat Roosevelt had co-opted the word “liberal.” Libertarians were fewand far between, although some had gained positions of prominence.At the New York Herald Tribune a columnist for the weekly book review,Isabel Paterson, was making waves with her vitriol against Roosevelt.Rand read Paterson regularly. 28In 1937 Rand added her voice to this growing chorus, dispatchinga blistering letter to the New York Herald Tribune in response toRoosevelt’s proposal that additional justices be added to the Supreme