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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com146FROM NOVELIST TO PHILOSOPHER, 1944–1957the principles she held dear. He did more damage than any Democratpossibly could, for his nomination “destroyed the possibility of anopposition” and meant “the end of any even semi-plausible or semiconsistentopposition to the welfare state.” Rand was not alone in herreaction. Even the new religious conservatives she hated were tepidabout the nonideological Eisenhower. In 1956 Buckley’s National Reviewwould offer a famously lukewarm endorsement: “We prefer Ike.” 32 Butnow, to her dismay, most of Rand’s New York friends swallowed theirreservations and climbed aboard the Eisenhower bandwagon. Twentyyears of Democratic rule had made them desperate for any Republicanpresident. This struck Rand as foolish compromise and unforgiveableinconsistency. She realized, “[T]hey were not for free enterprise, thatwas not an absolute in their minds in the sense of real laissez faire capitalism.I knew then that there is nothing that I can do with it and no helpthat I can expect from any of them.” 33 After a string of disappointments,she was ready to turn her back on conservatives altogether.It was Nathan, stepping forward into a new role of advisor, who gentlynudged Rand to this conclusion. The conservatives were not really “ourside,” he told Rand. “We have really nothing philosophically in commonwith them.” Boldly he informed Rand that she was making “a greatmistake” to ally herself with Republicans, conservatives, or libertarians.Rand was intrigued and relieved at Nathan’s formulation, the last premisethat she needed to clarify her thinking. Looking back a decade later,she remembered, “[F]rom that time on . . . I decided that the conservativesas such are not my side, that I might be interested in individualsor have something in common on particular occasions, but thatI have no side at all, that I’m standing totally alone and have to create myown side.” 34 Implicit in Nathan’s words was the promise that he and theCollective could take the place of the allies Rand had forsaken.The 1953 marriage of Nathan and Barbara accelerated Rand’s moveaway from the broader libertarian community. She and Frank presidedas matron of honor and best man at the wedding, a union Rand haddone much to encourage. In California Barbara Wiedman had confessedto Rand her uncertainty about the relationship, but found theolder woman unable to understand her hesitancy. Nathan was clearly an