Objectively Speaking
Ayn Rand Interviewed
Published on 16. January 2009
Book
Hardback
282 pages
978-0-7391-3194-7 (ISBN)
Description
Readers and students of Ayn Rand will value seeing in this collection of interviews how Ayn Rand applied her philosophy and moral principles to the issues of the day. Objectively Speaking includes half a century of print and broadcast interviews drawn from the Ayn Rand Archives. The thirty-two interviews in this collection, edited by Marlene Podritske and Peter Schwartz, include print interviews from the 1930s and edited transcripts of radio and television interviews from the 1940s through 1981. Selections are included from a remarkable series of radio broadcasts over a four-year period (1962-1966) on Columbia University's station WKCR in New York City and syndicated throughout the United States and Canada.
Ayn Rand's unusual and strikingly original insights on a vast range of topics are captured by prominent interviewers in the history of American television broadcasting, such as Johnny Carson, Edwin Newman, Mike Wallace, and Louis Rukeyser. The collection concludes with an interview of Dr. Leonard Peikoff on his radio program in 1999, recalling his 30-year personal and professional association with Ayn Rand and discussing her unique intellectual and literary achievements.
Ayn Rand is the best-selling author of Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem, and We the Living. Fifty years or more after publication, sales of these novels continue to increase.
Ayn Rand's unusual and strikingly original insights on a vast range of topics are captured by prominent interviewers in the history of American television broadcasting, such as Johnny Carson, Edwin Newman, Mike Wallace, and Louis Rukeyser. The collection concludes with an interview of Dr. Leonard Peikoff on his radio program in 1999, recalling his 30-year personal and professional association with Ayn Rand and discussing her unique intellectual and literary achievements.
Ayn Rand is the best-selling author of Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem, and We the Living. Fifty years or more after publication, sales of these novels continue to increase.
Reviews / Votes
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,More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
With printed dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7391-3194-7 (9780739131947)
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 Part 1. Beginnings: A Russian Emigre's First Interviews (1932-1949)
Chapter 3 Chapter 1. "Russian Girl Jeers at U.S. for Depression Complaint,"Oakland Tribune, 1932
Chapter 4 Chapter 2. "True Picture of Russian Girls' Love Life Tragic,"Boston Post, 1936
Chapter 5 Chapter 3. "The Woman of Tomorrow,"WJZ Radio, 1949
Part 6 Part 2. On Campus: Ayn Rand Talks With Future Intellectuals (1962-1966)
Chapter 7 Chapter 4. Objectivism versus Conservatism
Chapter 8 Chapter 5. The Campaign against "Extremism"
Chapter 9 Chapter 6. The "Robber-Barons"
Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Myths of Capitalism
Chapter 11 Chapter 8. The Political Structure of a Free Society
Chapter 12 Chapter 9. The American Constitution
Chapter 13 Chapter 10. Objective Law
Chapter 14 Chapter 11. The Role of a Free Press
Chapter 15 Chapter 12. Education
Chapter 16 Chapter 13. Romantic Literature
Chapter 17 Chapter 14. Romanticism versus Naturalism
Chapter 18 Chapter 15. The Visual Arts
Chapter 19 Chapter 16.Cyrano de Bergerac
Chapter 20 Chapter 17. Favorites in Art
Chapter 21 Chapter 18. The Nature of Humor
Chapter 22 Chapter 19. The Foundations of Morality
Chapter 23 Chapter 20. Altruism
Chapter 24 Chapter 21. Individual Rights
Chapter 25 Chapter 22. The Ethics of Objectivism
Part 26 Part 3. On Television and Radio: Ayn Rand in America's Living Rooms (1959-1981)
Chapter 27 Chapter 23. "The Mike Wallace Interview," ABC-TV, 1959
Chapter 28 Chapter 24.For the Intellectual, University of Michigan Television, with Professor James McConnell, 1961
Chapter 29 Chapter 25.The Tonight Show, with Johnny Carson, NBC-TV, August 1967
Chapter 30 Chapter26.The Tonight Show, with Johnny Carson, NBC-TV, October 1967
Chapter 31 Chapter 27.Speaking Freely, with Edwin Newman, NBC-TV, 1972
Chapter 32 Chapter 28.Day and Night, a television program hosted by James Day, 1974
Chapter 33 Chapter 29.Focus on Youth, a radio show hosted by Garth R. Ancier, 1976
Chapter 34 Chapter 30.The Raymond Newman Journal, a radio show, 1980
Chapter 35 Chapter 31.Louis Rukeyser's Business Journal, 1981
Chapter 36 Epilogue: Leonard Peikoff and Recollections of Ayn Rand
Part 2 Part 1. Beginnings: A Russian Emigre's First Interviews (1932-1949)
Chapter 3 Chapter 1. "Russian Girl Jeers at U.S. for Depression Complaint,"Oakland Tribune, 1932
Chapter 4 Chapter 2. "True Picture of Russian Girls' Love Life Tragic,"Boston Post, 1936
Chapter 5 Chapter 3. "The Woman of Tomorrow,"WJZ Radio, 1949
Part 6 Part 2. On Campus: Ayn Rand Talks With Future Intellectuals (1962-1966)
Chapter 7 Chapter 4. Objectivism versus Conservatism
Chapter 8 Chapter 5. The Campaign against "Extremism"
Chapter 9 Chapter 6. The "Robber-Barons"
Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Myths of Capitalism
Chapter 11 Chapter 8. The Political Structure of a Free Society
Chapter 12 Chapter 9. The American Constitution
Chapter 13 Chapter 10. Objective Law
Chapter 14 Chapter 11. The Role of a Free Press
Chapter 15 Chapter 12. Education
Chapter 16 Chapter 13. Romantic Literature
Chapter 17 Chapter 14. Romanticism versus Naturalism
Chapter 18 Chapter 15. The Visual Arts
Chapter 19 Chapter 16.Cyrano de Bergerac
Chapter 20 Chapter 17. Favorites in Art
Chapter 21 Chapter 18. The Nature of Humor
Chapter 22 Chapter 19. The Foundations of Morality
Chapter 23 Chapter 20. Altruism
Chapter 24 Chapter 21. Individual Rights
Chapter 25 Chapter 22. The Ethics of Objectivism
Part 26 Part 3. On Television and Radio: Ayn Rand in America's Living Rooms (1959-1981)
Chapter 27 Chapter 23. "The Mike Wallace Interview," ABC-TV, 1959
Chapter 28 Chapter 24.For the Intellectual, University of Michigan Television, with Professor James McConnell, 1961
Chapter 29 Chapter 25.The Tonight Show, with Johnny Carson, NBC-TV, August 1967
Chapter 30 Chapter26.The Tonight Show, with Johnny Carson, NBC-TV, October 1967
Chapter 31 Chapter 27.Speaking Freely, with Edwin Newman, NBC-TV, 1972
Chapter 32 Chapter 28.Day and Night, a television program hosted by James Day, 1974
Chapter 33 Chapter 29.Focus on Youth, a radio show hosted by Garth R. Ancier, 1976
Chapter 34 Chapter 30.The Raymond Newman Journal, a radio show, 1980
Chapter 35 Chapter 31.Louis Rukeyser's Business Journal, 1981
Chapter 36 Epilogue: Leonard Peikoff and Recollections of Ayn Rand