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Ayn Rand

Journals of Ayn Rand

 

The private Journals of Ayn Rand, written on over a period of forty years, are revealing the process of the creation of her philosophical ideas and literary projects.

 

What might be particularly interesting for ambitious and up-and-coming authors, is her complex, gradual process, with which Rand has developed the plot and the characters of her novels. For Rand fans who have profited reading The Fountainhead, chapter 7 contains an account of an exposé (for potential publishers), which describes the psychological and philosophical essence of all of the five main figures in adequate detail.

 

After publishing The Fountainhead, her publisher came to her with the request, to present the philosophy of this book in a systematic form. The Moral Basis of Individualism in chapter 8 represents the beginnings of this unfinished book project. In this extensive volume almost already a book for itself, this chapter reflects the developmental state of the maturing philosophy of Objectivism at the time of the 1940s.

 

Also dating from this time period, in chapter 10 one can find documents on Ayn Rand’s views on communism.

 

In the 1930s, when the practical consequences of communism weren't yet recognizable for everyone, this ideological system of commando-altruisms was as popular with many Hollywood personalities, as the McCarthy government hated it. Ayn Rand belonged to the few public figures of Hollywood who, in the large court procedures of the time then, pronounced herself in her statement against the influence of the Communists in Hollywood. In the Screen Guide for Americans she describes the techniques of the socialist propaganda, the moviegoers of the western world were exposed to, and which today are still used for similar purposes (in one or the other form).

 

The transcript of her statement in front of the HUAC (the Hearings Regarding Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry), is contained in this book. A fascinating contemporary document!

 

more than 720 pages

 

 

Recommended Priority Level: F

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Ayn Rand

The Ayn Rand Column

 

Besides some additional essays, which still haven't appeared in other Rand anthologies, this book contains all of the weekly published columns written by Ayn Rand in 1962 for the Los Angeles Times.

 

Here one can see how the popular columnist has applied her philosophy for the interpretation and commentation of political and cultural events of the day.

 

 

Recommended Priority Level: E

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Ayn Rand

Letters of Ayn Rand

 

In over 500 letters Ayn Rand conveys her private, from the traditionalistic conservatism diverging views on politics and philosophy to acquaintances, relatives and celebrities in culture and politics.

 

The Letters of Ayn Rand are giving insights into the nature and extent of all of the essential social relations Ayn Rand cultivated during the last fifty years of her life.

 

 

Recommended Priority Level: G

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Ayn Rand

Russian Writings on Hollywood

 

In Russia teenager Alissa Rosenbaum, the later world-renowned Ayn Rand, wrote two only recently discovered booklets on America, her adopted place of residence.

 

The Russian original texts (facsimiles) are followed by the respective English translations. In the here also included “film diary” Ayn Rand has judged hundreds of films, which she has seen in the 1920s both in Russia and in the US.

 

Documents from Ayn Rand's youth for the biographically interested Rand scholar.

 

 

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand's Marginalia

 

A compilation of marginal comments written into books, article and periodicals, which Ayn Rand has made during her reading.

 

Rand´s short comments to over twenty authors.

 

 

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Michael Paxton

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life

 

Michael Paxton shot, with ample use of biographical materials from the estate of Ayn Rand, an affectionate documentary film about her life and work, which, because if its quality, was even nominated for the Academy Award.

 

Interviews with friends and colleagues of Ayn Rand, parts from her films and speeches, information about her career, this all is conveying a genuine picture of the sense of life of the great writer and philosopher Ayn Rand.

 

In the accompanying book, the complete script is represented with 240 photographs.

 

 

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Edwin A. Locke

Study Methods & Motivation

 

Practical study methods for school and university, written by one of the leading objectivist psychologists.

 

 

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Ayn Rand

The Ayn Rand Reader

 

Interested? Possibly even straight off filled with enthusiasm for Ayn Rand's work?

 

You would like to read everything from Ayn Rand at once, but you have too little time?

 

Here is the best abbreviation for all who are very busy: the reader with the most essential statements from all four novels.

 

Every extract from a novel is followed by selected and matching essays from her anthologies, which are representing and deepening the ideas given there in explicit form.

 

Usable as handy summary, motivational source for in between, or as fast access to Rand's work!

 

 

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