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More oxford <strong>books</strong> @ www.OxfordeBook.<strong>com</strong><strong>Fore</strong> <strong>more</strong> <strong>urdu</strong> <strong>books</strong> <strong>visit</strong> <strong>www.4Urdu</strong>.<strong>com</strong>NOTES TO PAGES 260–26333940. Bidinotto authored “Getting Away with Murder,” a 1988 Reader’s Digest articlethat brought Willie Horton to the attention of presidential candidates Al Gore andGeorge Bush.41. It was a libertarian truism that the Constitution was an authoritarian document,since it had been signed by only a few persons yet claimed jurisdiction over an entirenation. See Hard Core News, undated, postmarked November 1970, unlabeled folder,Box 24, Evers Papers; Kerry Thornley, letter to the editors, Libertarian American 1, no. 5(1968), 2, Box 36, Evers Papers.42. Ayn Rand, “Apollo 11,” The Objectivist, September 1969, 709.43. Jerome Tuccille, “Spotlighting the News,” Rational Individualist, October 1969,5, Mises Institute.44. Ayn Rand, “The Anti-Industrial Revolution,” The Objectivist, January 1971, 962,978.45. Ayn Rand, “The Anti-Industrial Revolution, Part II,” The Objectivist, February1971, 980.46. This distinction is made by Andrew Kirk, Counterculture Green: The Whole EarthCatalog and American Environmentalism (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007).Whether this set of ideas transcends or represents yet another iteration of what DonaldWorster called the dialectic of “arcadian” and “imperialist” ecology is an important questionto explore. Worster, Nature’ s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1977/1994).47. Stewart Brand, diary entries dated July 9, 1968 and August 16, 1968, Stewart BrandPapers, Stanford University Special Collections.48. The Last Whole Earth Catalog (Menlo Park, CA: Portola Institute, 1971), 185.The catalogue included only <strong>books</strong> deemed either “useful as a tool” or “relevant toindependent education,” making mention tantamount to endorsement. It also re<strong>com</strong>mendedthe A Is A Directory and Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom (344).The Atlas Shrugged excerpt was from a speech by Rand villain Floyd Ferris, in which hetells Hank Rearden, “One declares so many things to be a crime that it be<strong>com</strong>es impossiblefor men to live without breaking laws.” Rand may also have inspired Brand’slater insistence that his hippy partners be<strong>com</strong>e <strong>com</strong>fortable with money and over<strong>com</strong>etheir guilt about using it to reform the world. For libertarian and countercultureconnections to cyberspace, see Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture:Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 2006); John Markoff, What the Dormouse Said: Howthe Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (New York: VikingPenguin, 2005). Rand’s intersection with the <strong>com</strong>puter culture is noted in ChristopherHitchens, “Why So Many High-Tech Executives Have Declared Allegiance to RandianObjectivism,” Business 2.0, August/September 2001, 129–32, and is surely worth furtherexploration.49. Ayn Rand, “A Suggestion,” The Objectivist, February 1969, 595–96; Ayn Rand,“Of Living Death,” The Objectivist, October 1968, 534. Members of Frank O’Connor’sextended family claimed that Rand herself had an abortion in the early 1930s, whichthey helped pay for. Heller, 128. Rand never mentioned this incident, but whatever

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