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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com202WHO IS JOHN GALT? 1957–1968A writer for New University Thought captured the mood among universityprofessors. Robert L. White grudgingly admitted Rand’s influence,calling her “a genuinely popular ideologue of the right” and identifyinga “genuine grass-roots fervor for her ideas.” According to White, Randwas the only contemporary novelist his students consistently admired,and he found it “dismaying to contemplate the possibility that Ayn Randis the single writer who engages the loyalties of the students I am perhapsineffectually attempting to teach.” White thought Rand was “a horrendouslybad writer,” and, condescendingly, he thought his student’sidentification with her heroic characters “pathetic.” But White was alsoscared. Even though he couldn’t take Rand seriously as a thinker or awriter, he worried that when his students outgrew her, “some of AynRand’s poison is apt to linger in their systems—linger and fester thereto malform them as citizens and, possibly, deliver them over willing victimsto the new American totalitarians.” 33 Like many of Rand’s critics itwas difficult for White to imagine Rand as simply another purveyor inthe marketplace of ideas.Professorial opposition to Rand was undoubtedly fed by her reputationas a right-wing extremist. On college campuses those interestedin Rand typically gravitated toward conservative student groups, soonmaking Objectivists into a visible segment of the conservative youthpopulation. Atlas Shrugged had been roundly denounced by Rand’sconservative and libertarian contemporaries, but a new generationgreeted the book with enthusiasm. A 1963 National Review survey ofstudent conservatives noted that “a small but appreciable headway isbeing made by the Objectivists” and estimated that they composedless than 10 percent of the student right. 34 The survey included SarahLawrence, Williams, Yale, Marquette, Boston University, Indiana, SouthCarolina, Howard, Reed, Davidson, Brandeis, and Stanford. The highestpercentage of self-identified Objectivists were at Stanford and BostonUniversity (7 percent and 5 percent, respectively). In California she hada significant following at both public and private schools.From its founding days, Rand’s ideas haunted Young Americans forFreedom (YAF), one of the first conservative youth organizations. Thebrainchild of William F. Buckley, the group drew up its founding principles,“The Sharon Statement,” during a meeting at Buckley’s Connecticutestate in 1960. Like Rand, Buckley wanted to form a cadre of young