Rand redux
- From: Stratum101 <j.collier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 06:54:01 -0800 (PST)
On Oct 30, 2:35 pm, Marko Amnell <marko.amn...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Kirsch-t.html?_r=1&ref....
scroll down to the "audio" box on left hand side of page
Anne Heller, author of _Ayn Rand and the World She Made_ and
Jennifer Burns, author of _Goddess of the Market and the
American Right_ are on C-SPAN2's Book Weekend, this
weekend. They both made presentations to the Cato
Institute.
Burns's book (which is the new title in this thread)
contrasts "the libertarians", including
Rand, with "the conservatives", meaning Republican
tories. In the 1960s, each sect (sic) disassociated
itself from the other. Rand was more loudly
denounced by Southern Baptist preachers than
by anybody on the left. (But I was living in Dallas,
and probably could hear the Baptists
screaming more loudly than I could
hear the nearly non-existent left.)
Rand eschewed even the common noun
"libertarian" because, as was usual in her
life, she was unable to collaborate with
capital-L Libertarians who gave her hissy
fits. Lawyers for her estate prevented inclusion of
her writing in _The Libertarian Reader_ by
David Boaz of the Cato Institute who was
host of the C-SPAN2 broadcast
referenced above.
Heller is more interested in Rand's literary
style and in her psychology. She observes
that Rand, a man in spirit, married a wife,
the meek, artistic Frank O'Connor, who gave up
a second-rate acting career and horticulture
avocation to support her emotionally. She
supported the two of them financially.
This is how I viewed them, too.
In fact, both books look like rehashes of what
is intimately familiar to me but will be
new to a generation born after 1970.
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