By Ayn Rand
Edited by David Harriman
Foreword by Leonard Peikoff
Ayn Rand was an endless fount of brilliantly original ideas. This book is a collection of her exploratory (and occasionally final) thoughts, from 1927 through the 1960s, on a variety of subjects. Journals includes her work on a movie she planned to write about the atomic bomb project—on The Moral Basis of Individualism, her first attempt at a systematic, non-fiction presentation of her ethics—on her notes for a post-Atlas novel titled To Loren Dieterling.
Leonard Peikoff writes in the Foreword: "One great pleasure in reading the book is to see hints of later discoveries mentioned at first casually, even parenthetically. . . . In terms of cognitive value to the reader, the new material alone in this volume warrants the price. It is new to me also. No matter how clear Objectivism is in my mind, every time I read another Ayn Rand book, it becomes clearer. This book is no exception."
Table of Contents
Foreword by 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
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