Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum was born to Jewish parents in 1905 Russia.
Ayn Rand left Russia in 1926 for America and founded her anticollectivist
philosophy, Objectivism, a philosophy of free market capitalism and the
pursuit of self-interest as a moral good. Depressive, pill-taking,
chain-smoking and manipulative, Rand's life was defined by a longtime
Sunset Boulevard.like affair with Nathaniel Branden, who went on to
start the self-esteem movement. At the same time, the combustible
Rand was married to a passive man with matinee-idol looks. Magazine
editor and journalist Heller competently describes Rand's feuds with
William F. Buckley and with her sister, who had remained in the U.S.S.R.,
and the more courtly relationship Rand had with publisher Bennett Cerf.
This objective account of the Objectivist Rand will interest her still
large and devoted readership. Photos.

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