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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comA NEW CREDO OF FREEDOM 93exercise,” and a book reviewer from Boston recounted, “My husband andI lived in [The Fountainhead] for several weeks, discussed it frontwardsand backwards, in and out, the ‘what’ the ‘why’ the ‘wherefore.’ ” Eventhose who disagreed with Rand enjoyed thinking through the questionsshe raised. This intellectual excitement was engendered by Rand’s carefulencoding of ideas in a fictional plot. Many who would never haveread a treatise on ethics or politics found the novel drew them quicklyinto the world of ideas. 47From the start Rand hoped to twin the emotional and intellectualparts of the novel. Ideally readers would experience strong feelings ofidentification with both her characters and her political views. She toldDeWitt Emery, “When you read it, you’ll see what an indictment of theNew Deal it is, what it does to the ‘humanitarians’ and what effect itcould have on the next election—although I never mentioned the NewDeal by name.” 48 Rand’s belief that fiction could have important politicalconsequences sprang from her Russian background and her carefulobservations of the New York left. As anti-Communists were hustledout of Leningrad State University, Rand had realized that the mostinnocuous of literary works could have political meaning. She kept thisin mind during her first years in the United States, when she sent herfamily American novels to translate into Russian. These books were animportant source of income for the Rosenbaums, but they had to passthe Soviet censors. Rand became an expert in picking out which type ofstory would gain the approval of the Communists. These same works,she believed, were slowly poisoning the American system and had contributedto Willkie’s defeat. “The people are so saturated with the collectivismof New Deal propaganda that they cannot even grasp whatMr. Willkie really stood for,” she wrote in a fund-raising letter. “Thatpropaganda has gone much deeper than mere politics. And it has tobe fought in a sphere deeper than politics.” 49 The Fountainhead wouldexpose Americans to values and ideals that supported individualismrather than collectivism.Plenty of readers understood and embraced The Fountainhead’sdeeper meaning. In a letter to Rand one woman attacked the Office ofPrice Administration, a federal government agency established to regulatecommodity prices and rents after the war broke out: “I am assumingthat you view with growing horror the government’s paternal treatment