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Barbara Branden (1929–2013)

Autor/a de The Passion of Ayn Rand

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Barbara Branden was born Barbara Joan Weidman in Winnipeg, Canada, on May 14, 1929. She received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1951. She became part of Ayn Rand's inner circle in the 1950s and '60s. She helped disseminated Rand's ideas in mostra'n més newsletters and journals, organized her lecture tours, gave lectures, and helped establish organizations for the study of Objectivism. She wrote a biography entitled The Passion of Ayn Rand, which was adapted into a television movie in 1999. Her other works include a book of essays entitled Who Is Ayn Rand? and a quasi-memoir entitled Ayn Rand and Her Movement: An Interview with Barbara Branden, Rand's Close Colleague and Administrator of Her Movement. She died from a lung infection on December 11, 2013 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Who is Ayn Rand? An analysis of the novels of Ayn Rand (1964) — Col·laborador — 73 exemplars

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My own intellectual history with Rand aside, I read this because of this, which you should click immediately: http://the-toast.net/2016/02/11/ayn-rand-once-cursed-a-guys-dick-so-bad-he-moved...

Anyway, the book is uncomfortably fawning like 75% of the time, but vastly compelling, partly because Ayn Rand couldn't stop being Ayn Rand and doing the most Ayn Rand things possible. Seriously.… (més)
 
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Adamantium | Hi ha 11 ressenyes més | Aug 21, 2022 |
One of the greatest and most important books I've ever read.
 
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