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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comTHE REAL ROOT OF EVIL 103matters, creating a vast new market for pro-capitalist writers. 8 Rand’sprincipled defense of capitalism, which focused on individualism ratherthan specific political issues, was a perfect fit for these corporate efforts.The editor of the Houghton Line, published by a Philadelphia companythat manufactured oils, leathers, and metal-working products, gave TheFountainhead a glowing review. In a weekly circular sent to customersthe owner of Balzar’s Foods, a Hollywood grocery store, referencedboth The Fountainhead and Anthem and included a diatribe againstthe New Deal–created Office of Price Administration. A top executiveat the Meeker Company, a leather goods company in Joplin, Missouri,distributed copies of Roark’s courtroom speech to his friends and businessacquaintances. 9 Much as Rand had always wished, capitalists werefinally promoting her work of their own volition.Business conservatives were also drawn to another best-selling bookattacking state control of the economy, F. A. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom.Written for a British audience, Hayek’s book unexpectedly caught theattention of Americans, and he was mobbed by enthusiastic crowds whenhe toured the United States in 1944. Hayek made arguments very similarto those Rand had advanced during her post-Willkie activism. He tiedhis laissez-faire beliefs to the broader international situation, arguingthat any movement toward state regulation of the economy would ultimatelyculminate in full-blown socialism and dictatorship. Like Rand,he warned, “The forces which have destroyed freedom in Germany arealso at work here.” 10 He shared her distrust of “the common good” andtitled one of his chapters “Individualism and Collectivism.” The receptionof their work was also similar, for Hayek was snubbed by intellectualsyet embraced by businessmen and other Americans nervous aboutthe implications of the New Deal. Both The Fountainhead and Road toSerfdom were even made into comic books, a testimony to their wideappeal.The Road to Serfdom launched Hayek on a remarkable career as anintellectual and organizer that would culminate with his winning the1974 Nobel Prize in Economics. The book’s popularity caught the attentionof the Kansas City–based Volker Fund, a newly active libertarianfoundation, which eventually helped Hayek secure a position at theUniversity of Chicago, a lone academic redoubt for libertarian ideas.During the war the economists Frank Knight, Henry Simons, and Alan