The Journals of Ayn Rand

by Rand, Ayn; Peikoff, Leonard; Harriman, David

• ISBN13: 9780452278875
• ISBN10: 0452278872
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Plume

Summary

Rarely has a writer and thinker of the stature of Ayn Rand afforded us access to her most intimate thoughts and feelings. From Journals of Ayn Rand we gain an invaluable new understanding and appreciation of the woman, the artist, and the philosopher. We see Rand as an untried screenwriter in Hollywood, share her painful memories of Communist Russia and her struggles to bring them to dramatic life in We the Living. We witness the step-by-step emergence of the characters and plot of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, along with the years of painstaking research that would imbue her novels with their powerful authenticity. And we are with her as she explores the basic questions of philosophy and builds the foundation of what will become the towering philosophy called Objectivism. Including descriptions of the projects cut short by her death, Journals of Ayn Rand illuminates the mind and heart of an extraordinary woman as no autobiography or memoir ever could. On these vivid, fascinating pages, Ayn Rand lives.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii	(8)
Leonard Peikoff
Editor's Preface	xv
PART 1: Early Projects	3	(74)
CHAPTER 1: The Hollywood Years	3	(46)
CHAPTER 2: We the Living	49	(17)
CHAPTER 3: First Philosophic Journal	66	(11)
PART 2: The Fountainhead	77	(166)
CHAPTER 4: Theme and Characters	77	(40)
CHAPTER 5: Architectural Research	117	(48)
CHAPTER 6: Plot	165	(25)
CHAPTER 7: Notes While Writing	190	(53)
PART 3: Transition Between Novels	243	(146)
CHAPTER 8: The Moral Basis of Individualism	243	(68)
CHAPTER 9: Top Secret	311	(34)
CHAPTER 10: Communism and HUAC	345	(44)
PART 4: Atlas Shrugged	389	(278)
CHAPTER 11: The Mind on Strike	389	(94)
CHAPTER 12: Final Preparations	483	(66)
CHAPTER 13: Notes While Writing: 1947-1952	549	(96)
CHAPTER 14: Notes While Writing Galt's Speech	645	(22)
PART 5: Final Years	667	(50)
CHAPTER 15: Notes: 1955-1977	667	(30)
CHAPTER 16: Two Possible Books	697	(20)
Index	717