By Shoshana Milgram
The hand-edited drafts of Ayn Rand's novels, preserved in the Library of Congress, show a literary genius laboring on her masterpieces—through selection, clarification and integration.
These two lectures take a fascinating look at the development that certain scenes in The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged went through—in particular, scenes involving philosophical speeches and romantic encounters.
(MP3 download; 3 hrs., 126 MB)
