Books by Ayn Rand (Study Guide) - Journals of Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Letters of Ayn Rand (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Journals of Ayn Rand, Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal, Letters of Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, for the New Intellectual, the Virtue of Selfishness, the New Left: the Anti-Industrial Revolution, the Romantic Manifesto, the Voice of Reason, Philosophy: Who Needs It, the Art of Fiction, Return of the Primitive: the Anti-Industrial Revolution. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Journals of Ayn Rand is a book derived from the private journals of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, and published in 1997, 15 years after her death. It was edited by David Harriman with the approval of Rand's estate. When Rand died in 1982, her private papers were left to her student and heir, Leonard Peikoff. Starting in 1983, Peikoff began authorizing the publication of excerpts from her journals and other unpublished writings. From 1983 to 1994, several such excerpts appeared in The Objectivist Forum and The Intellectual Activist. David Harriman, a physicist and a speaker for the Ayn Rand Institute, edited Rand's journals for publication in book form. The hardcover edition of the fully edited Journals of Ayn Rand was published by Dutton in 1997. A paperback edition was published by Plume in 1999. In a foreword for the book, Peikoff describes Rand's journals, with a few exceptions, as being "written for herself, for her own clarity" and not intended for publication. A preface by Harriman describes the material as being about three-quarters of Rand's "working journals," collected from "numerous boxes of papers she left behind at her death." He describes his editing as consisting of "selection, organization, line editing, and insertion of explanatory comments." He says that "not a great deal of line editing was required," a...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2447651