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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comINDIVIDUALISTS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 57she reflected later. 47 Toward the end of the campaign Willkie did turnin a markedly isolationist direction, telling his audiences he would notbecome involved in a war and eliciting a similar pledge from Roosevelt.By then Rand’s enthusiasm for Willkie had nearly ebbed away. More thanhis duplicity about the war she was bothered by his stance on capitalism.He had begun as a stalwart defender of free enterprise, but then shied awayfrom using the term in his speeches. Instead “he talked about his childhoodin Indiana—to show that he’s a small town American, in effect—instead oftalking about the issues.” 48 What she wanted, more than anything else, wassomeone who would stand up and argue for the traditional American wayof life as she understood it: individualism. She wanted the Republicans toattack Roosevelt’s expansion of the federal government and to explain whyit set such a dangerous precedent. The ideas and principles that Rooseveltinvoked, she believed, were the very ones that had destroyed Russia.Few Americans shared her views. Indeed voters were satisfied enoughwith Roosevelt that they elected him to an unprecedented third term. Butit was not quite the coronation it seemed. For all its activity, the New Dealhad not defeated the scourge of depression, and unemployment remainednear 15 percent. Roosevelt had alienated powerful figures in both partiesand his reform efforts had been thwarted in the past few years. But theincreasing instability in Europe made voters skittish. Hitler had plowedover France, and his U-boats sniped at American ships in internationalwaters. As the old adage went, it was unwise to switch horses midstream.In the wake of Willkie’s defeat new avenues opened before Rand. Thecampaign had profoundly redirected her intellectual energies. Ratherthan resume work on her novel full time, in the months following hervolunteer work she poured forth a number of nonfiction pieces andbegan to see herself as an activist, not just a writer. With some of herWillkie contacts she planned a political organization, a group of intellectualsand educators who would pick up where the Republican candidatehad left off.Rand forged her own path into politics, eschewing established groupssuch as America First, which had picked up the mantle of organizedopposition to Roosevelt. Founded in Chicago in the fall of 1940, AmericaFirst was the institutional embodiment of midwestern isolationism. The