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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comA NEW CREDO OF FREEDOM 71project, provided it remained uncompromising in ideology and did notevade or pussyfoot “on major issues, such as the issue of defending capitalism,”Rand reported to Pollock. Next on her list was Gloria Swanson,a famous actress from the silent movie era who had been a Willkie supporter.Swanson was originally reluctant to participate, but after readingRand’s “Manifesto” she agreed to join the committee and make furtherintroductions. “I can’t repeat what she said about the ‘Manifesto,’it would sound too much like boasting on my part,” Rand bragged toEmery. 8 During this time Rand also met John Gall, an attorney for theNational Association of Manufacturers, who pledged to drum up interestand possibly funding among his colleagues.With enough interest aroused, in the late summer and fall Rand andPollock scheduled a series of meetings to discuss their plans and talkwith professional fund-raisers. At least one of these meetings was held atRand’s apartment. Frank was present as Rand’s escort during all meetingsheld at their home, but he did not participate actively in any of theplanning. He had rung bells and passed out literature for the Willkiecampaign but was uninterested in the intellectual and strategic questionsthat animated Rand.During these meetings Rand had her first misgivings about the project.She was flattered but surprised by the reaction of her fellows toher “Manifesto,” which she considered a “bromide” full of self-evidenttruths. Many of her contacts instead greeted it as a revelation, whicharoused her suspicions. Now, meeting her group in person, she realizedthey were not intellectuals. She had pictured the organization asprimarily educational in nature, but now she saw that “education wouldhave to begin not with the provinces and the clubs, but with the headquarters,that we would have nobody to run it.” 9Rand’s disillusionment was particularly acute when she met AlbertJay Nock, one of their most prominent recruits. Unlike the others, Nockwas a true intellectual. In the 1920s he had edited an idiosyncratic literarymagazine, The Freeman, and had lately emerged as a vigorous criticof Roosevelt. In 1935 he published an individualist tract, Our Enemy, theState. He had been a member of the Liberty League and edited a Reviewof Books for the conservative National Economic Council. Along withH. L. Mencken, Nock was one of the few established men of letters whopublicly identified himself as an individualist and opponent of the New