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Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Foreword 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 - RCHITECTURAL 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 : 1941-1952 Chapter 14 - NOTES WHILE WRITING GALT’S SPEECH PART 5 - FINAL YEARS Chapter 15 - NOTES: 1955—1977 Chapter 16 - TWO POSSIBLE BOOKS INDEX “Journals is a treat to read, because it is the raw evidence of Ayn Rand’s continuous growth across fifty years—her growth both as a philosopher and as an artist ... “We see the steps by which she [created her novels]—we are there when a dramatic event or scene first occurs to her, and we see what she finally does with it and why ... We see how Ayn Rand uses (or deliberately does not use) her knowledge of real people. This last will answer such common questions as: Was Frank Lloyd Wright a model for Roark? Or William Randolph Hearst for Wynand? It will also answer some uncommon questions, such as: What female suggested Lois Cook? What scientist Robert Stadler? And what president Mr. Thompson? ” -LEONARD PEIKOFF LEONARD PEIKOFF is universally recognized as the world’s premier Ayn Rand scholar. He worked closely with Rand for thirty years and was designated by her as heir to her estate. He has taught philosophy at Hunter College and New York University. Dr. Peikoff’s books include The Ominous Parallels and Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. He is also co-editor of The Ayn Rand Reader, available in a Plume edition. For further information, you can go to his website, alshow com. DAVID HARRIMAN has M.S. degrees in both physics and philosophy. He has taught philosophy at California State University, San Bernardino, and is working on a book on the philosophy of physics. He has worked with Leonard Peikoff for several years. PLUME Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Published by Plume, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. Previously published in a Dutton edition. First Plume Printing, August, 1999 Copyright © The Estate of Ayn Rand, 1997 Foreword copyright © Leonard Peikoff, 1997 Preface copyright © David Harriman, 1997 All rights reserved The Library of Congress has catalogued the Dutton edition as follows: Rand, Ayn. Journals of Ayn Rand / edited by David Harriman ; foreword by Leonard Peikoff. p. cm. Includesindex. eISBN : 978-1-10113721-5 0-452-27887-2 (pbk.) 1. Rand, Ayn—Diaries. 2. Women novelists, American—20th century—Diaries. 3. Women philosophers—United States—Diaries. I. Harriman, David. II. Peikoff, Leonard. III. Title. PS3535.A547Z476 1997 818 5203—dc21 [B] 97-12737 CIP Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE AT QUANTITY DISCOUNTS WHEN USED TO PROMOTE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. FOR INFORMATION PLEASE WRITE TO PREMIUM MARKETING DIVISION, PENGUIN PUTNAM INC., 375 HUDSON STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10014. Information about other books by Ayn Rand and her philosophy, Objectivism, may be obtained by writing to OBJECTIVISM, Box 177, Murray Hill Station, New York, New York 10157 USA. http://us.penguingroup.com FOREWORD DY LEONARD PEIKOFF Ayn Rand’s Journals—my name for her notes to herself through the decades —is the bulk of her still unpublished work, arranged chronologically. What remains to be published are two lecture courses on writing, presently being edited, and her old film scripts. The Journals contains most of AR’s notes for her three main novels—along with some early material, some notes made between The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and some notes from her final decades. The early material includes, among other things, AR’s first philosophic musings on paper in English, written in her twenties. The middle section includes a fascinating transitional statement of her ethics, never finished, and also a vigorous essay on why the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 did not violate the civil rights of the Hollywood Communists. The final section includes the notes for AR’s last projected novel, To Lorne Dieterling. Some pieces important to this volume have been lost. I refer to eight or ten scenarios for the silent screen, written in the twenties. These stories, several pages apiece, featured strong heroes, a passionate love interest, and non-stop action, often set in exotic locales; they exemplified an extravagant romanticism bubbling over with the excitement of living. I first came upon these scenarios in the eighties, after AR’s death. Had I been able to include them here, they would have brought a sorely needed balance to some other items, such as The Little Street, a bitter novelette from the same period. Mysteriously, these scenarios have disappeared from the Estate warehouse. If they should reappear, I promise to publish them. Aside from occasional pieces, identified by the editor, the AR material in this book was written for herself, for her own clarity. No one, apart from her husband and a few associates, was ever shown any of this material, nor did AR intend to publish it. Obviously, therefore, nothing in the book may be taken as definitive of her ideas. On the contrary, most of these preliminary formulations were dropped, and a few were even contradicted, in her published works. In several cases, though hardly in all, the editor points out such discrepancies. “The art of writing,” AR wrote in a November 1944 note, “is the art of doing what you think you’re doing. This is not as simple as it sounds. It implies a very difficult undertaking: the necessity to think. And it implies the requirement to think out three separate, very hard problems: What is it you want to say? How are you going to say it? Have you really said it?” It was to answer these
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