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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com250LEGACIESseveral that had been recorded, but the level of activity never approximatedNBI’s. Nathan’s transgressions had profoundly damaged Rand’swillingness to popularize her work.Instead Rand restricted her teaching to a small group of students,most of whom were pursuing graduate degrees in philosophy. Thesestudents were primarily interested in Rand’s theory of concepts, whichshe laid out in The Objectivist in 1967 and would publish in 1979 asIntroduction to Objectivist Epistemology. In these smaller courses Randoften discussed topics she did not write about, leading to the developmentof an Objectivist “oral tradition” carried forth by this remnant ofthe larger movement. Her lectures and Peikoff’s extension of her ideasprovided fertile ground for later Objectivist philosophers, but Randhad little new published work to offer. In 1971 she released her last twononfiction books, The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution and TheRomantic Manifesto, both collections of previously published articles. 7In the outside world the “Objecti-schism” diminished Rand’s authorityconsiderably. In the year following her split with Branden subscriptionsto The Objectivist dropped sharply, from twenty thousand tofourteen thousand. Stepping into the vacuum, entrepreneurial Randenthusiasts began to redefine her philosophy to suit their interests.Objectivism had always been more than NBI, for the institute’s rigidityrepelled many a would-be student. Anne Wortham was a devoted readerof Rand when she visited the New York NBI, but she was disappointedby the “big-wigs” on stage and Rand herself, who “seemed cold, dogmatic,authoritarian, without that benevolent sense of life that she wroteso eloquently about.” Although she never enrolled in an NBI course,Wortham continued a “private” relationship with Objectivism and usedRand’s ideas to inform her later academic work in sociology. 8 Similarly,after Jarrett Wollstein was ejected from NBI for daring to teach a courseon Objectivism at the local free university, he continued to identifyRand as a major influence on his thought. Wollstein started one of themost successful neo-Objectivist organizations, the Society for RationalIndividualism, which published The Rational Individualist, a journal “inbasic agreement with Objectivism.” 9Despite its stated orientation, The Rational Individualist publishedthe first serious challenge to Rand’s hegemony, an “Open Letter to AynRand” by Roy Childs Jr., a student at the State University of New York,