About this title: Both admirers of Ayn Rand's writing, the author and his wife joined the Collective, a circle of intellectuals that included Rand and her husband. Then, despite a 25-year age difference and the fact that they were both married, Nathaniel and Ayn embarked on a passionate affair Atlas Shrugged and the creation of the Nathaniel Branden Institute. Photos.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T)
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780395461075ISBN:0395461073
Description: A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T)
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780395461075ISBN:0395461073
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Description: Good. Purchasing this DVD supports the North Central Regional Library. Thriftbooks and NCRL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Library ID found on DVD and case. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Avon Books, New York, NY
Date Published: 1991
Description: Very Good. Tall softcover with minor edge wear, spine creased. Former owner's bookplate inside cover. Includes many b&w photos. "Twenty-five years her junior, Nathaniel Branden was Ayn Rand's devoted fan, her chief apostle, her prophet...and, ultimately, her lover. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T)
Date Published: 1989-01
ISBN-13:9780395461075ISBN:0395461073
Description: Very Good. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. DJ shows some wear and tear. Careful packaging and fast shipping. read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780395461075ISBN:0395461073
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ D.J. not price clipped; slightly creased; moderate edge wear/ corners and spine bumped. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780395461075ISBN:0395461073
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Full number line present, Slight wear to heel and head of spine, binding tight, pages clean, no PO markings, corners show light rubs, edges of boards are discolored from age, Dust Jacket has slight wear to edges, is not price clipped, covered in Mylar for protection. read more
"This not-so-flattering portral was my introduction to Rand. As a result, I didn't go ga-ga over her like so many people do in their 20s when they discover her. I was already suspiscious of her motives and skeptical about her theories before ever reading Atlas or Fountainhead."
"A coming of age story, with all the drama worthy of Ayn Rand. Those who have ever been heavily involved in cult-like groups and then broken away will relate to this story."
"Some background...soon after leaving the safe haven of college and beginning what would be a slow progression toward an actual "profession," I discovered Ayn Rand. My father had recommended _Atlas Shrugged_ years before, which I read with some degree of tedium...but that´s another Goodreads review. Suffice it to say that, being a young, naive, somewhat disoriented, reasonably intelligent person who was trying to make sense of the Real World, I glommed onto Ayn Rand's militant flavor of individualism like a starving cat at a tuna buffet. I wanted, desparately, somewhere in my eclectically idealistic psyche, to believe that the Randian universe of steely-eyed heroes and unwavering devotion to Something was something possible beyond the abundant pages of her books.
Enter "Judgement Day: My Years With Ayn Rand." I enjoyed it, which is to say, I think that Branden described these tumultuous years with what seemed an admirable mixture of clear-headed retrospect and self-awareness, and with that, I felt comforted to see that Ayn Rand's novelized fantasy world was in fact just that -- something that simply did not match the reality of her life or of that of those close to her. "Close," that is, as much as a pedestal will allow one to be. That said, this was my one and only purportedly "factual" account of any part of Ayn Rand's life, so how accurate it is I can't say.
A particularly telling thread of the book was the cult-like quality that the first band of Objectivists, of which Branden was more or less a founding member, supposedly developed, and Branden's preception that Rand's idealized fierce individualism, in the context of her immediate circle, devolved into what was actually a rigid ideological hierarchy, where Rand stood at the center and brooked little or no discord. It helped put her work into perspective, at least for me."
"Branden's tell all, of what his life was like with AR, her behavior, dishonesty, harm done to others. Depressed, angry, raging, self/other destructive, (not your girl next door), or your lofty intellectual. Branden does well with this, and I believe there is more to come."
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