![]() ![]() Mayhew stresses that even though Rand’s marginalia can give us great insight into her way of thinking, one cannot treat those comments as final statements, as she “wrote these comments for her own eyes only, and never imagined that they would be published.” As Mayhew explains in his introduction, the material included “comes from over twenty books and several boxes of newspaper/magazine clippings,” mostly from after 1957, when she turned to writing nonfiction after having published Atlas Shrugged. Lewis, Barry Goldwater, Henry Hazlitt, Bishop Fulton Sheen, and John Hospers. Ayn Rand’s Marginalia allows the reader, in effect, to sit next to Rand and observe her reading a book and making notes on important passages - notes that usually explain where the author’s logic fails.įeatured in Ayn Rand’s Marginalia are notes on thinkers and authors such as Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, C. Thanks to the efforts of Robert Mayhew, some of her most penetrating marginalia are available in book form. It was Rand’s practice to make extensive marginal notes in the books and articles she read, and many of those volumes are preserved in the Ayn Rand Archives. ![]() In her published nonfiction, Ayn Rand dissects the viewpoints of prominent intellectuals based on her careful reading of their books. ![]()
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