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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com178WHO IS JOHN GALT? 1957–1968“that this current ‘return to religion’ is a most dangerous tendency. . . .But the alien atheism of Ayn Rand, with its worship of Reason andof an Elite of Noble, Productive Men, and its contempt of humanbeings, the ‘masses,’ is no answer to the Kirks.” 21 Rand’s work accentuatedthe sharp differences that still separated libertarians fromconservatives.As controversy raged in the letters section of National Review, Randsuffered through her darkest days yet. She sank into a deep depression,crying nearly every day in the privacy of her apartment. Some formof letdown was probably inevitable after the long buildup to publication,and Rand’s continued use of Benzedrine may have further contributedto her emotional fragility. What she dwelled upon was the painfulabsence of intellectual recognition. Rand longed to be publicly hailedas a major thinker on the American scene. The Collective had satisfiedher need to be a teacher and an authority, but it left unquenched herdesire for accolades from intellectual peers. Rand enjoyed being a dominantfigure, but she also wanted to admire, to lift her gaze upward likeHoward Roark. Nathan and Alan Greenspan elicited her favor preciselybecause they could teach her about psychology and economics, fieldsabout which she knew little. Mises’s endorsement was welcome, but notenough. She had already counted him among her supporters, and heheld little sway outside libertarian circles. Rand directly confessed herdisappointment only to Frank, Nathan, and Barbara, but her anguishwas palpable to the rest of the Collective.Rand’s quest for intellectual recognition was doomed from the outset.It was not simply that her political views were unpopular. Five yearsafter the publication of Atlas Shrugged Milton Friedman advanced similarlycontroversial ideas in his Capitalism and Freedom, with little loss tohis academic reputation. Friedman’s association with the University ofChicago and his technical work in economics insulated him against thetype of attacks Rand endured. 22 She had neither a formal academic postnor any academic training beyond her Soviet undergraduate degree. Yetit was her choice of style rather than form which inhibited her work’sreception. Rand’s romantic fiction, with its heavy political messagesand overdrawn contrasts between good and evil, was hopelessly out of