Objectively Speaking: Ayn Rand Interviewed

by Marlene Podritske (Editor), Peter Schwartz (Editor)

Overview

Objectively Speaking: Ayn Rand Interviewed provides sharp insights on a vast range of cultural issues that are totally unique and original, yet instantly recognizable as Ayn Rand. The collection is philosophical and intellectual, yet accessible to the general public.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739131961
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/16/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	282
File size:	349 KB

About the Author

Marlene Podritske is a freelance editor, writer, and designer.
Peter Schwartz is author of The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest: A Moral Ideal for America and editor of Ayn Rand's Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

Part 1 Beginnings: A Russian Emigre's First Interviews (1932-1949)

1 "Russian Girl Jeers at U.S. for Depression Complaint," Oakland Tribune, 1932 3

2 "True Picture of Russian Girls' Love Life Tragic," Boston Post, 1936 5

3 "The Woman of Tomorrow," WJZ Radio, 1949 9

Part 2 On Campus: Ayn Rand Talks With Future Intellectuals (1962-1966)

4 Objectivism versus Conservatism 15

5 The Campaign against "Extremism" 23

6 The "Robber-Barons" 31

7 Myths of Capitalism 37

8 The Political Structure of a Free Society 43

9 The American Constitution 51

10 Objective Law 59

11 The Role of a Free Press 67

12 Education 81

13 Romantic Literature 95

14 Romanticism versus Naturalism 101

15 The Visual Arts 109

16 Cyrano de Bergerac 117

17 Favorites in Art 123

18 The Nature of Humor 131

19 The Foundations of Morality 139

20 Altruism 143

21 Individual Rights 153

22 The Ethics of Objectivism 159

Part 3 On Television and Radio: Ayn Rand in America's Living Rooms (1959-1981)

23 "The Mike Wallace Interview," ABC-TV, 1959 169

24 For the Intellectual, University of Michigan Television, with Professor James McConnell, 1961 179

25 The Tonight Show, with Johnny Carson, NBC-TV, August 1967 189

26 The Tonight Show, with Johnny Carson, NBC-TV, October 1967 199

27 Speaking Freely, with Edwin Newman, NBC-TV, 1972 207

28 Day and Night, a television program hosted by James Day, 1974 223

29 Focus on Youth, a radio show hosted by Garth R. Ancier, 1976 233

30 The Raymond Newman Journal, a radio show, 1980 241

31 Louis Rukeyser's Business Journal, 1981 253

Epilogue: Leonard Peikoff and Recollections of Ayn Rand255

Index 267

Editorial Reviews

Whatever you asked her-within the fields she knew-she had not only an answer, but an encyclopedia of knowledge in her mind backing her answer up with identifications, integrations, connections, illustrations. Suppose you asked her what she thought of a movie she'd just seen. By the time she finished her answer, it was as if you had taken an entire course in esthetics, movie-making, dialogue construction, philosophy and art.” —Leonard Peikoff, from the Epilogue

“Readers will find this a particularly topical review of Rand's highly individualistic philosophy.” —Booklist

“A friendly forum, edited by a pair of Rand partisans. ...A resource for Rand completists...a careful reader could glean the essence of Objectivism from what appears here.” —Foreword Reviews

“But she would project the power of being able to cope with anything, of being able to answer anything and solve anything. In her presence, you had to feel-at least, I felt-there is hope, there is a future, justice will triumph. That sense just radiated out of her, and made it easier to leave on a better note, and to live more fully and happily.” —Leonard Peikoff, from the epilogue,

From the Publisher

A friendly forum, edited by a pair of Rand partisans. ...A resource for Rand completists...a careful reader could glean the essence of Objectivism from what appears here.

Foreword Reviews

Readers will find this a particularly topical review of Rand's highly individualistic philosophy.

Booklist

Whatever you asked her—within the fields she knew—she had not only an answer, but an encyclopedia of knowledge in her mind backing her answer up with identifications, integrations, connections, illustrations. Suppose you asked her what she thought of a movie she'd just seen. By the time she finished her answer, it was as if you had taken an entire course in esthetics, movie-making, dialogue construction, philosophy and art.

Leonard Peikoff

Readers will find this a particularly topical review of Rand's highly individualistic philosophy.

February 2009 Booklist

A friendly forum, edited by a pair of Rand partisans. ...A resource for Rand completists...a careful reader could glean the essence of Objectivism from what appears here.

February 2009 Foreword Reviews