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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com116FROM NOVELIST TO PHILOSOPHER, 1944–1957I should put up over the fireplace in my own office. So I came home, gotinto my slippers, provided myself with a good quantity of martini andwas reading Roark’s speech for the most suitable quotation.” On anotheroccasion he thanked Rand for praise she had given him, noting, “Yourcomments about my speech please me to no end. Getting that kind ofapproval from you is what I call ‘passing muster.’ ” Read tapped Rand toserve as FEE’s “ghost,” asking her to read material he intended to publishto make sure it was ideologically coherent. 41 Rand was delighted withthe chance to influence the new organization.From the start she pushed Read to assume a stance that mirrored herown. She was particularly insistent that Read promote her moral views.He must explain that profit and individual gain were “the capitalist’s realand proper motive” and ought to be defended as such. Otherwise, if thevery motive of capitalism was “declared to be immoral, the whole systembecomes immoral, and the motor of the system stops dead.” 42 It was thesame criticism she had made of Hayek: a partial case for the free marketwas worse than no argument at all. Read was naturally more cautious.Like Rand he believed that government functions such as rent control,public education, the Interstate Commerce Commission, military training,and the Post Office should all be done by “voluntary action.” But hetold her, “I had luncheon last week with the chief executive of the country’slargest utility holding Corp. and a financial editor of the JournalAmerican. They are regarded as reactionaries, yet each of these gents,while being [against] price controls generally, suffered rent control. Thisis typical.” With an eye to public perception, Read had chosen the FEE’srather bland name rather than use the inflammatory word “individualism,”as Rand had urged. 43 Although Rand was generally pleased withRead’s efforts, she could see nothing but apostasy where others saw necessarycompromises with political and economic realities. Despite theirearly productive collaboration, significant differences underlay Rand’sand Read’s approach to political activism.Trouble came on the occasion of FEE’s inaugural booklet, Roofs orCeilings?, authored by Milton Friedman and George Stigler, then youngeconomists at the University of Minnesota. Like her reaction to Hayek,Rand’s reaction to Friedman is illuminating for the differences it highlightsbetween her and another famous libertarian. Roofs or Ceilings?was written as Friedman, then a new faculty member at Minnesota,