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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com288ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe early stages of this project were supported by grants from theUniversity of California, Berkeley, History Department. I receivedtravel funding from the Institute for Humane Studies and the HerbertHoover Presidential Library and a summer stipend from the NationalEndowment for the Humanities. The Mises Institute generously offeredme room and board during my stay in Auburn. A W. Glenn Campbelland Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship, awarded by the HooverInstitution, Stanford University, gave me a full year to write and research.In the last critical stages of writing I received support through theUniversity of Virginia Excellence in Diversity Fellowship, Professors asWriters Program, summer grant, and the Digital Classroom Initiative.In the eight years I worked on this project I have benefited from thesupport, advice, and friendship of many people. Apologies in advance toanyone I may have left out. I alone am responsible for all interpretations,arguments, errors, or omissions in this book.At the University of California, Berkeley, my advisor, David Hollinger,guided me expertly from seminar paper to finished dissertation. I willnever forget the gleam in his eye when I proposed the topic of Ayn Rand.His confidence in me has been inspiring and his guidance indispensible.I also benefited immensely from the critical skepticism of Kerwin Kleinand the prompt attentions of Mark Bevir. As I finished writing, EitanGrossman and Kristen Richardson provided valuable editorial support.From the beginning of the project, Eitan urged me to think carefullyabout the nature, significance, and depth of Rand’s intellectual appeal.The rich secondary literature on Rand, which I describe more fully inmy concluding Essay on Sources, provided an invaluable starting pointfor my inquiry. I am grateful to the broader community of scholars andwriters interested in Rand who paved the way before me.Many historians have read all or part of the manuscript. I benefitedfrom the insightful comments and questions of Joyce Mao, Jason Sokol,and members of David Hollinger’s intellectual history discussion group,especially Nils Gilman and Justin Suran. Nelson Lichtenstein, CharlesCapper, Thomas Bender, Louis Masur, anonymous readers for ModernIntellectual History, and the editorial board of Reviews in AmericanHistory helped me perfect parts of the dissertation for publication.Michael Kazin, Daniel Horowitz, and Don Critchlow read the entiredissertation and suggested fruitful ways to reconceptualize it as a book.