By Ayn Rand
EDITORIAL overview: hardly has a author and philosopher of the stature of Ayn Rand afforded us entry to her so much intimate innovations and emotions. From *Journals of Ayn Rand*, we achieve a useful new knowing and appreciation of the girl, the artist, and the thinker, and of the long-lasting legacy she has left us. Rand comes vibrantly to existence as an untried screenwriter in Hollywood, growing tales that mirror her younger imaginative and prescient of the realm. We see her painful stories of communist Russia and her struggles to conveyy them in *We the Living*. so much attention-grabbing is the complicated, step by step strategy wherein she created the plots and characters of her masterworks, *The Fountainhead* and *Atlas Shrugged*, and the years of painstaking examine that imbued the novels with their strong authenticity. whole with reflections on her mythical screenplay in regards to the making of the atomic bomb and tantalizing descriptions of tasks reduce brief through her demise, *Journals of Ayn Rand* illuminates the brain and center of a rare lady as no biography or memoir ever may. On those bright pages, Ayn Rand lives.
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Such was the sense of life not only of a young immigrant in her twenties ho was brimming over with new ideas, but also of a philosopher in her sev enties, who had lived consistently by every one of her ideas. Such was the sense of life of an artist “alone in an enemy world,” who had already endured her greatest disappointments—and created her greatest achievements. As David Harriman puts it in his eloquent conclusion: “Ayn Rand has come full circle. She returned at the end to [the] problem [of irrational people] that had concerned her from the beginning....
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