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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comE PILOGUE :AYN RAND IN AME RICAN M E MORYWhen Rand died in 1982, her old enemies were quick to declare victory.“Ayn Rand is dead. So, incidentally, is the philosophy she soughtto launch dead; it died still born,” William F. Buckley Jr. announcedin a mean-spirited obituary that once again set the letters column ofNational Review abuzz. Buckley’s dismissal of Rand was overconfidentby any standard. Only a year before, George Gilder had recognized Randas an important influence in Wealth and Poverty, a book soon known asthe bible of the Reagan administration. Two years after her death anotherof her admirers, Charles Murray, would light the conservative worldaflame with his attack on welfare, Losing Ground. Along with A Time forTruth, written by former Treasury Secretary William Simon and formerCollective member Edith Efron, these books suggested that Rand’s influencewas just beginning to be felt in policy circles. The New York Timeswould even dub Rand the “novelist laureate” of the Reagan administration,citing her influence on Alan Greenspan, Martin Anderson, andseveral others. 1Yet as Buckley’s obituary suggested, Rand’s reputation was captiveto the events of her lifetime. In 1986 Barbara Branden lifted the curtainon Rand’s private affairs with the publication of her memoir cum biography,The Passion of Ayn Rand, followed three years later by NathanielBranden’s own lurid memoir, Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand.Sparing no detail, the Brandens disclosed the full story of her relationshipwith Nathan and emphasized the dark side of Rand, including herharsh treatment of the Collective, her anger and depression, and herhabitual use of amphetamines. Although both Brandens lauded Rand’sintellectual accomplishments, the revelations about her personal lifeovershadowed their assertions of her worth as a thinker.279