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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com144FROM NOVELIST TO PHILOSOPHER, 1944–1957students at New York University, where Barbara and Nathan were nowenrolled. These young people were fascinated by Rand, drawn by herstrong personality, her bold presentation of ideas, and her literary fame.Rand’s new group of fans dubbed themselves the “Class of ’43” afterThe Fountainhead, or tongue-in-cheek, “The Collective.” Rand grantedher inner circle a rare privilege: the chance to read chapters of AtlasShrugged as they poured off her typewriter. Objectivism as a philosophyhad been long germinating in Rand’s mind. Now Objectivism as a socialworld began to take shape around her.Rand also remained a magnet for libertarians. She became friendlywith Herbert and Richard Cornuelle, two brothers who worked for FEEand the Volker Fund. The Cornuelles were the same type of businessorientedlibertarians she had met in California. After studying with Mises,Herbert pursued a corporate career with Dole Pineapple, and Richardserved as the head of the National Association of Manufacturers andlater as an advisor to Presidents Nixon and Reagan. Richard found Rand“electrifying.” When he visited her apartment she seemed a dynamoof energy, perched high atop an ottoman “smoking cigarettes with along holder with a very characteristic, rather severe hairdo and a kindof intensity in the way she looked at you when she was talking to you,which I found kind of fascinating and frightening almost.” One eveningthe Cornuelles brought Murray Rothbard to Rand’s home. A Brooklynnative, Rothbard had stumbled across organized libertarianism by wayof the infamous Roofs or Ceilings? pamphlet that had caused so muchgrief for Leonard Read. Given a copy in 1946 while a graduate student,he contacted FEE and was then introduced to the work of Mises. Bythe time Rand returned to New York Rothbard was pursuing a Ph.D.in economics at Columbia University and was a regular at the Misesseminar. 29Meeting Rand, Rothbard quickly discovered that she was not his “cupof tea.” It was a curious reaction, for the two had much in common.Both loved to argue, staked out extremist positions, and criticized anyonewho strayed from pure ideology. Although he was an economist,Rothbard, like Rand, approached libertarianism from a moral point ofview. But Rothbard found Rand exhausting. Her intensity, her “enormoushopped-up energy,” overwhelmed him. 30 (He had no idea thatRand was a regular user of amphetamines, but he seems to have detected