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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comIT USUALLY BEGINS WITH AYN RAND 273she had read his work, announcing, “Let me say that I have not readand do not intend to read that book.” 69 Instead, she offered a reviewof the reviews Rawls had received in the New York Times. Aside fromLeonard Peikoff, Rand had no other contributors to her publication,and between Frank’s declining health and her own it was impossible forher to produce a fortnightly publication unaided.Rand was occupied primarily by personal events, particularly thediscovery of her long-lost sister Nora. In the spring of 1973 Rand wasshocked to receive word from Nora, whom she had presumed deaddecades ago. At a U.S.-sponsored art show in Leningrad, Nora picked upa booklet on American authors and discovered her sister’s picture. Shewrote to the group sponsoring the exhibit, who in turn contacted Rand.It was the first news she had received of her family in more than thirtyyears. The two women had a tearful phone conversation and arrangedfor Nora and her husband to pay a visit. Rand was overjoyed. Here, afterthe hard years of disappointment and betrayal, was a reward to brightenher old age. Despite declining health she threw herself into preparations,renting an apartment for the couple in her building and investigatingRussian communities in the area where they could settle. She wouldsponsor Nora and Victor to stay in the United States, supply them withwhatever they needed to make their lives near hers.But Nora’s visit was a disaster, a sad reprise of Rand’s last faileddays with Isabel Paterson. At first the two sisters connected ecstatically.Nora, though, was paranoid and suspicious, suspecting Rand’s driver,cook, and Leonard Peikoff of being American spies. Shaped by yearsof propaganda, she refused to believe they were not being watched.Rand was frustrated by her sister’s inability to understand the freedomsof America. Nora pushed back, criticizing the messiness and clamorof Rand’s beloved New York. She showed little interest in her sister’sbooks, instead devouring a volume by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, bannedin the USSR. Rand considered Solzhenitsyn the worst kind of Russianmystical collectivist, but Nora praised his work. The two began to arguenonstop. Rand canceled the parties she had planned for Nora as theirsix-week visit devolved into a clash of wills. Nora was jealous of hersister’s fame and fortune perhaps, or maybe she was just overwhelmedby the differences between their lives. But she could not, would notreject Russia as Rand expected her to. Equally stubborn and righteous,