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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comNOTES TO PAGES 109–11231523. Rosalie Wilson, Oral History, ARP. The incident raises the issue of Rand’s relationshipto her ethnic origins. Though her choice of name disguised her Jewish roots,she was always quick to identify herself as Jewish if anti-Semitic statements arose. Evenso, since she had not chosen her religion she viewed it as largely inconsequential toher identity. As George Nash argues, this was a fairly common attitude among secularJewish intellectuals during a time when religious and ethnic background was notcelebrated as the key to authentic selfhood. Nash, “Forgotten Godfathers: PrematureJewish Conservatives and the Rise of National Review,” American Jewish History 87, nos.2–3 (1999): 123–57. Others have found Rand’s Jewish origins to be of some consequence.The conservative critic Florence King asserts, “Ayn Rand’s whole shtick was a gargantuandisplacement of her never admitted fear of anti-Semitism,” though she offers noevidence to support this point. King, With Charity toward None (New York: St. Martin’sPress, 1992), 127. Andrew Heinze makes the more compelling case that Rand should beconsidered part of the American tradition of female Jewish public moralists, akin toJoyce Brothers, Laura Schlessinger, and Ann Landers. Heinze, Jews and the AmericanSoul (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004) 300–301. Though in later yearsthe majority of her close friends and associates were of Russian Jewish background andRand made her first charitable donation to the state of Israel in 1973, she said and wrotevirtually nothing on the topic of Judaism, nor did she mention the fate of European Jewsduring World War II. (Her frequent references to Hitler always came as part of a generalizeddiscussion about totalitarianism and were usually twinned with reference to Stalin.)Rand may have had some vestigial loyalty to her birth religion, but as she stated, it seemsto have been largely unimportant to her mature self-concept.24. Ruth Hill, Oral History, ARP.25. Jack Bungay, Oral History, ARP; Walter Seltzer, Oral History, ARP.26. “Actress Peggy O’Neil Dead in Writer’s Home,” Los Angeles Times, April 14, 1945,A1; Oral History interview with June Kurisu; Albert Mannheimer to Ayn Rand, undated,ARP 003–13A.27. B. Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand, 197, 250.28. Ruth Hill, Oral History, ARP.29. Henceforth for clarity’s sake I refer to the manuscript by its published title, AtlasShrugged.30. Rand purchased the volume edited by Richard McKeon, The Basic Works ofAristotle (New York: Random House, 1941), a classic tome of about 1,500 pages withexcerpts from the Organon, On the Heavens, The Short Physical Treatises, and Rhetoric andthe complete texts of On the Soul, On Generation and Corruption, Physics, Metaphysics,Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Poetics in their entirety. AR to Isabel Paterson, July 26,1945, Letters, 179.31. In 1948 Niebuhr was on the cover of Time magazine, an indication of the widespreadinterest in his ideas. Richard Wightman Fox, Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography (NewYork: Pantheon Books, 1985); Patrick Allitt, Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politicsin America, 1950–1985 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993); Edward Purcell, TheCrisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value (Lexington:University of Kentucky Press, 1973), chapter 8.