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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com176WHO IS JOHN GALT? 1957–1968time advocating Christianity. Rand’s ideas threatened to undermine orredirect the whole conservative venture. Even worse, given her popularity,there was the significant danger that Rand would be seized on byliberals as a spokesperson for conservatism. She might then confirm theliberal stereotype that conservatism was nothing more than an ideologicalcover for the naked class interests of the haves. For all these reasons,Rand would have to be cast out of the respectable right. More than justa literary judgment, the National Review article was an exercise in tabletkeeping. The review signified Buckley’s break with the secular libertariantradition Rand represented and his efforts to create a new ideologicalsynthesis that gave religion a paramount role. It was as Nathan hadforeseen: Rand and the conservatives were not on the same side.Chambers’s review sent shock waves across the right. Rand herselfclaimed to have never read it, but her admirers were horrified. TheCollective chafed at the injustice of assigning a former Communist toreview her work and barraged the magazine with a number of incendiaryletters angrily comparing National Review to the Daily Worker. 16Isabel Paterson resurfaced from her own misanthropic isolation tochide Buckley for publishing such an “atrocious” review and warnedhim that Rand was likely to sue for defamation (she never did). Theletters column of National Review hummed with controversy for weeksafterward. One high-profile defender was John Chamberlain, who hadgiven Rand rare favorable reviews in The Freeman and the Wall StreetJournal. 17 In an “Open Letter to Ayn Rand” Chamberlain praised her“magnificent” exposition of freedom and averred that he would continue“the lugubrious task of persuading people to read it in spite ofthemselves.” Chamberlain thought that much of the outcry against AtlasShrugged was based on religion and lamented that Rand had not “chosento admit just one vocal and practicing Christian in her Fellowshipof the Competent.” 18Chamberlain was right to highlight religion as fundamental to thecontroversy over Rand, for it was religious conservatives who most dislikedher book. William Mullendore, who had long enjoyed warm relationswith Rand, was repelled by the harshness of Atlas Shrugged. In theyears since Rand had left California, Mullendore had undergone a sortof religious awakening, and he now found Rand’s work disturbing. Afterreading the book he sent a concerned three-page letter to his children,