Ayn Rand

[jbor]

Not to mention Rand's former toy-boy, Nathaniel Branden's tell-all in  
_Judgment Day: My Years With Ayn Rand_ (1989); and his essay (handily
on-line at his site) about the 'Benefits and Hazards of the Philosophy of
Ayn Rand':

http://www.vix.com/objectivism/Writing/NathanielBranden/BenefitsAndHazards.h
tml

See also the recent reprints of Branden's early essays: 'The Literary Method
of Ayn Rand' and 'The Moral Revolution in _Atlas Shrugged_'.

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    "By 1945, the factory system - which, more than
     any piece of machinery, was the real and major
     result of the Industrial Revolution - had been
     extended to include the Manhattan Project, the
     German long-range rocket program and the death
     camps, such as Auschwitz.It has taken no major
     gift of prophecy to see how these three curves
      of development might plausibly converge, and
                before too long. ... "
                                 (T. Pynchon, 1984)
                                                    ~~~