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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com182WHO IS JOHN GALT? 1957–1968that reviewed her work unfavorably. The rest of the Collective followedsuit, leaping to the defense of their leader. But Collective members themselveswere on uncertain ground. In Galt’s speech Rand had made judgmentinto a virtue, telling her readers, “To withhold your contempt formen’s vices is an act of moral counterfeiting” (946). Now if a member ofthe Collective offended, Nathan would “invite that person to lunch, and,in a quiet but deadly voice, I would inform him or her of the nature ofthe transgression.” 26 Serious offenses could mean an appearance beforethe entire Collective, a sort of show trial with Branden or Rand presiding.Defendants who promptly confessed their guilt and promised towork harder at living Objectivist principles were let back into the fold.Murray Rothbard was again one of the first outsiders to witnessthis new direction. He had reconnected with Rand after reading AtlasShrugged, a work he considered “not merely the greatest novel ever written,it is one of the very greatest books ever written, fiction or nonfiction.”In an extraordinarily frank letter Rothbard not only sang the praises ofRand’s novel, an “infinite treasure house,” but apologized for avoidingher in the past. Trusting that the author of Atlas Shrugged would receivehis confession in the proper spirit, he told her how their previous meetingshad left him depressed. It was not her fault, but his. He admitted,“I have come to regard you like the sun, a being of enormous powergiving off great light, but that someone coming too close would be likelyto get burned.” Although his words revealed some lingering trepidation,Rothbard was eager to close the gap he had created between himselfand Rand. “Please let me know if there’s anything I can do to promotethe sale of the novel,” he wrote, and enclosed as a peace offering a letterattacking one of the book’s unfavorable reviews. 27 Within weeks theCollective and the Circle Bastiat were back in close contact.Once again Rothbard tried to keep his intellectual distance from Randbut was psychologically vulnerable to her powers. After an all-night sessionbetween the two groups he reported to a friend, “As clear and rationalas she is in so many matters, she is clearly muddled as a legal andpolitical theorist, where the Circle takes primary rank.” 28 Still, Rothbardwas being drawn into the Objectivist universe. For years he had sufferedfrom a variety of phobias, the most crippling being a fear of travel thatkept him from leaving New York. When Nathan promised that he couldcure this phobia in a manner of months, Rothbard eagerly signed up for