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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comCHAPTER THREEA New Credo of Freedom$by the time she completed the “Manifesto of Individualism”Ayn Rand’s interest in politics was all-consuming and her literarylife was at a standstill. She left The Fountainhead manuscript largelyunattended and plunged into another round of organizing efforts.Wielding Channing Pollock’s name and her writing, Rand began meetingas many New York “reactionaries” as possible. She was in a cityknown as the reddest in America; indeed the very phrase “New Yorkintellectual” came to connote a certain type of leftist-literary thinkerwith Communist sympathies. What Rand joined instead was an alternateuniverse of other New York intellectuals, committed to free marketsand laissez-faire.These contacts, particularly her new friend Isabel Paterson, furtherintroduced Rand to the American individualist tradition she had encounteredthrough her opposition to Roosevelt. Rand found libertarian ideascompelling but the libertarian attitude alarming. The Willkie campaignhad energized Rand and convinced her that Americans were receptiveto capitalist ideas, but it had the opposite effect on others. Alone amongher fellows, it seemed, she believed in the possibility of political change.Through months of letter writing, meetings, and impassioned talks,Rand found few willing to join her crusade to develop a “new credo offreedom.” 1 Her organizing failures increased Rand’s sense of urgency.As she wrote to Pollock, “Who is preaching philosophical individualism?No one. And if it is not preached, economic individualism will not survive.”2 Rand had a new sense of mission that would eventually find itsway into her uncompleted manuscript.When she finally secured a publisher for The Fountainhead Randreturned to the book a different person, with different ways of thinkingabout the world. In its origins The Fountainhead reflected Rand’s earlier67