"As a television journalist, I hosted an hour-long documentary about The Atlas Society, a Washington, D.C. think tank devoted to the philosophy of late author/philosopher Ayn Rand.  As part of this production, I interviewed Barbara Branden, author of the biography The Passion of Ayn Rand.  A longtime friend (and sometime adversary) of Rand, Branden was on the scene when Rand wrote her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged.  She, along with her then-husband Nathaniel Branden, helped spread Rand's philosophy, Objectivism, throughout the late 1950s and 1960s, until a rift developed between Rand and the Brandens in 1968.  Barbara Branden chatted with me about her heady days with Rand, the schism that tore them apart, their eventual reconciliation, and her thoughts about Rand's influence on philosophy, politics, and popular culture."  -- Richard Speer

 

 

 

 

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