Journals of Ayn Rand: Author of Atlas Shrugged and Philosopher of Objectivism

Edited by David Harriman  Foreword by Leonard Peikoff
 

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"Other people claim there were seven and a half million, but three million is the figure admitted by the Soviet Government as the figure of people who died of starvation, planned by the government in order to drive people into collective farms. That is a recorded historical fact."--AYN RAND
Contents

Foreword
Leonard Peikoff
Editor's Preface


PART 1: Early Projects

CHAPTER 1: The Hollywood Years
CHAPTER 2: We the Living
CHAPTER 3: First Philosophic Journal


PART 2: The Fountainhead

CHAPTER 4: Theme and Characters
CHAPTER 5: Architectural Research
CHAPTER 6: Plot
CHAPTER 7: Notes While Writing


PART 3: Transition Between Novels

CHAPTER 8: The Moral Basis of Individualism
CHAPTER 9: Top Secret
CHAPTER 10: Communism and HUAC


PART 4: Atlas Shrugged

CHAPTER 11: The Mind on Strike
CHAPTER 12: Final Preparations
CHAPTER 13: Notes While Writing: 1947-1952
CHAPTER 14: Notes While Writing Galt's Speech


PART 5: Final Years

CHAPTER 15: Notes: 1955-1977
CHAPTER 16: Two Possible Books

Index