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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comA NEW CREDO OF FREEDOM 95known for his mildly socialist leanings, but in the postwar era he wouldemerge as a high-profile voice of libertarianism, writing for the WallStreet Journal, Life, and Time. 51The Fountainhead offered renewed energy to libertarianism at a criticaltime. Somnolent for years, anti–New Deal groups such as the Committeefor Constitutional Government and the American Economic Foundationbegan to reawaken in the early 1940s. These groups immediately recognizedRand as a kindred spirit. In the fall of 1943 she partook in a publisheddebate sponsored by the American Economic Foundation. Heropponent was Oswald Garrison Villard, former editor of The Nation, andthe question at hand, “Collectivism or Individualism—which promisespostwar progress?” She sold a very condensed version of her “Manifesto”to the Committee for Constitutional Government, which placed it inReader’s Digest as “The Only Road to Tomorrow.” Soon to become afont of popular anti-Communism, Reader’s Digest helped Rand becomeidentified as an overtly political author. 52Still, Rand feared she wasn’t reaching her kind of readers. Most distressingwere the ads for The Fountainhead, which presented the book asan epic romance rather than a serious treatment of ideas. She fired off anangry letter to Archie Ogden, detailing her dissatisfaction. Before longshe took action herself, resurrecting her earlier political crusade, but nowtying it directly to the fortunes of her novel. As she explained to Emery,she wanted to become the right-wing equivalent of John Steinbeck: “Letour side now build me into a ‘name’—then let me address meetings,head drives, and endorse committees. . . . I can be a real asset to our ‘reactionaries.’” The key would be promoting The Fountainhead as an ideologicaland political novel, something Bobbs-Merrill would never do. 53Rand was careful to explain that her ambitions were not merelypersonal. The problem, she explained to Emery and several other correspondents,was that the intellectual field was dominated by a “Pink-New-Deal-Collectivist blockade” that prevented other views from beingheard. This was why books like The Fountainhead were so important: Ifit went “over big, it will break the way for other writers of our side.” Randwas convinced “the people are with us”; it was leftist intellectuals whostood in the way. 54 She set up meetings with executives at DuPont and theNational Association of Manufacturers and pressed Monroe Shakespeareto pass her book along to Fulton Lewis Jr., a right-wing radio host.