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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comCHAPTER EIGHTLove Is Exception Making$by the middle of the 1960s Rand’s popularity among young conservatives,her open support of Goldwater, and the continued appealof her books had pushed her to a new level of mainstream visibility. As abacklash unfolded against Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and the warin Vietnam, Rand’s ideas seemed ever more relevant and compelling.In 1967 she was a guest on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show three timesin five months. Each time she explained to Carson the fundamentals ofher philosophy, the audience response was so great she earned anotherinvitation. 1 Ted Turner, then a little-known media executive, personallypaid for 248 billboards scattered throughout the South that read simply“Who is John Galt?” 2 Ten years after the publication of Atlas Shruggedshe was at the apex of her fame.With success came new challenges. Most troubling of all was her relationshipwith Nathan. Rand had designated him her intellectual heir,openly and repeatedly. She had dedicated Atlas Shrugged to him (andFrank), allowed his name to be publicly linked with Objectivism, enteredbusiness arrangements with him. The Nathaniel Branden Institutehad blossomed into a national institution, with around thirty-fivehundred students enrolled each year in more than fifty cities. 3 Theinstitute had heavy concentrations of followers in southern California,New York, and Boston. In New York City Objectivism became its ownsubculture, complete with sports teams, movie nights, concerts, andannual dress balls. An NBI student could socialize, recreate, and studyexclusively with other Objectivists, and many did. At the top of thissociety stood Nathan and Ayn, living embodiments of her philosophy.They were bound by a thousand ties, personal and professional, privateand public, past and present. But more than a decade after they firstbecame lovers, the two were further apart than they had ever been.214