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Volume 13, Number 1, January 2007 Essay Contest Winner Announced Impact is pleased to announce that the winner of to read ’s novels and think about the Shrugged 50th anniversary, ARI hopes to expand the 2006 Atlas Shrugged essay contest is themes expressed in those books. the Atlas Shrugged essay contest. Subject to avail- Ann Pedtke from Gambier, Ohio. The contests have been effective in that able funding, we plan to: Miss Pedtke is a regard. Said Miss Pedtke, “I read Atlas Shrugged double major in English while I was volunteering in New Orleans over • Promote this expanded contest to every English and classics at Kenyon the summer, and paired with that experience it and language-arts teacher in every high school College, and plans to provided a whole new perspective for me. I had in North America. work in book or maga- read only before Atlas Shrugged, but The • Create a fund to award special prizes to top zine publishing. “I found Fountainhead and some of Ayn Rand’s earlier essays submitted by high school seniors in the the details of the contest works are definitely on my to-read list now.” contest. through a search engine In addition to Miss Pedtke, forty-eight other • Provide support for high school teachers with for college scholarships,” students won cash prizes, ranging from $50 to questions about the contest—as well as fund- Anne Pedtke she recently told Impact, $1,000. The prize for first place was $5,000. ing for the additional contest administration “but the name of the competition was familiar to Four of the Atlas Shrugged essay contest win- and judging. me from various other scholarship and writing ners are currently enrolled in the Objectivist Aca- • Expand our current Web site to promote the contest sources I had searched. As far as essay demic Center (OAC), the Institute’s academic pro- expansion of the Atlas Shrugged essay contest contests go, I think that ARI has done a fantastic gram, which offers students a systematic program to include high school seniors. job of getting the information out there.” of instruction in the essentials of and • Increase the number and total value of the prizes Miss Pedtke’s essay addressed the question, in the nature of objective thought and communica- awarded for the entire contest, and intensify our “At his trial, Hank Rearden declares: ‘The public tion. OAC student Laura Mazer, a medical student promotional efforts. good be damned, I will have no part of it!’ What at Emory University in Atlanta, told Impact, “The does he mean? How does this issue relate to the themes in Atlas Shrugged are incredibly power- These contests are a powerful means of rest of the novel and its meaning?” Her essay ful, and the essay contest gave me an opportunity furthering interest in Ayn Rand and inspiring was chosen out of 1,318 entries from full-time to articulate them for myself. Rereading the novel participants to think about the ideas presented college students and college-bound high school with the essay topic in mind definitely helped in her novels. “I gained a more intimate knowl- seniors (the second largest number of entries in the me to integrate the plot events in a new way, and edge of an amazing novel and life perspective,” contest’s history); Dr. made the expanded my understanding of the book.” While Miss Pedtke said. “I hope that ARI will continue final selection. she was not enrolled in the OAC at the time she to offer this opportunity to high school and col- ARI sponsors essay contests for three of wrote the essay, Miss Mazer said, “I am learning a lege students alike for many years.” Ayn Rand’s novels: Atlas Shrugged, The Fountain- lot in my OAC course and I look forward to doing For more information on ARI’s essay head and Anthem. The purpose of these contests even better in future essays as a result.” contests, please visit our Web site at is to encourage high school and college students This year, in conjunction with the Atlas www.aynrand.org/contests.

Objectivist Summer Conference 2007 Preview: Celebrating Atlas Shrugged As part of the Atlas Shrugged 50th its theme, and shows how the novel’s central plot shortly after the publication of anniversary celebration, several premise functions as a veritable engine of abstract (but later set aside). The lecture assumes familiar- of the talks at Objectivist Summer and concrete originality. ity with The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged but Conference 2007 will have a theme presupposes no further background. related to the novel. Ayn Rand’s : From The Fountainhead to Atlas Shrugged The Creation of Ayn Rand’s The Originality of Atlas Shrugged by Darryl Wright Ultimate Man: Who Was by Tore Boeckmann Ayn Rand originally envisioned Atlas ? The theme of Atlas Shrugged is “the role of the mind Shrugged as a socio-political novel that by Shoshana Milgram in man’s existence,” and the demonstration of a new would build on the ethical ideas of The After writing Atlas Shrugged, of rational self-interest. The plot features Fountainhead. But as she worked said that she could never the men of the mind going on strike against an altru- Atlas, she developed and revised her hope to create a hero greater than ist-collectivist society. ethical thought in unexpected ways. John Galt—and she did not try to do In regard to both abstract message and concrete This lecture explores how, and why, so. Why did she see Galt as the ful- story, Atlas Shrugged is stunningly innovative—bear- her ideas changed—as well as what fillment of a lifelong ambition? Why ing out Ayn Rand’s statement that “creating a new, did not change. Topics include life as did she say that Galt was the “best original abstraction and translating it through new, an ultimate value; the relation between representative” of the Objectivist original means” is “my kind of fiction writing.” life and happiness; the relation between ethics? What was her answer to the In this lecture, Tore Boeckmann tests the origi- spiritual and material values; the impor- question: Who is John Galt? nality of Atlas Shrugged by comparing the charac- tance of asking why morality is needed; the idea This lecture describes the creation of John ter of Francisco d’Anconia, and the event of the that morality presupposes a basic choice to live; Galt from Ayn Rand’s earliest thoughts about the tunnel disaster, with very similar concretes from and the question of whether rationality or indepen- character, through her preparatory notes and the the plays of Friedrich Schiller (specifically, Fiesco dence is the primary moral virtue. Special attention edited drafts of the manuscript, to the final text and Mary Stuart). The comparison highlights non- will go to the pivotal role of The Moral Basis of of the novel. Topics include key elements of the obvious ways in which Atlas Shrugged concretizes , the nonfiction work Rand began continued on page 4 Conference Exhibits Promote ARI’s Programs The Origins of ach year ARI participates in conferences he had ever done—and that it was our programs Atlas Shrugged Ethat enable us to promote our programs to which made that possible.” Final reading in “Stand and Think” teachers and college professors. These confer- This was the fifth consecutive year the Insti- series discusses the history of ences also give us a unique opportunity to meet tute participated in the conference. “Every year Ayn Rand’s masterpiece face to face with the teachers who benefit from we find that more and more teachers are aware our programs. of our programs,” Mr. Ludin said. “This year we In November ARI attended the National Coun- had more teachers visit the booth and sign up on cil of Teachers of English (NCTE) conference in our mailing list than ever before.” Nashville. Most of In late Decem- the attendees were ber ARI also had English teachers, an exhibit at the ranging from the Modern Language preschool to the high Association (MLA) school level. The conference in Phila- standing room only crowd joined ARI archi- Institute’s primary delphia and at the Avist for a talk on Atlas Shrugged goal was to promote American Philo- at the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood the Ayn Rand essay sophical Associa- Regional Library on December 9. It was the third contests and the Free tion (APA) Eastern and final installment of “Stand and Think: Read- Books to Teachers Division conference ings from the Unpublished Ayn Rand,” which is project. The exhibit in Washington, D.C. part of a series of events surrounding the library’s included promotional The MLA confer- “Ayn Rand in Hollywood” exhibit. flyers, teacher guides ence, unlike the The exhibit is made possible by the Ayn Rand and lesson plans for NCTE conference, Archives, the source of the exhibit material. Ayn Rand’s novels, was aimed largely at Mr. Britting’s talk began with a discussion of the as well as free review Matt Ludin, education programs specialist, at ARI’s exhibit at the NCTE conference college-level profes- archives and its function. “The main purpose of copies of her books. sors, and ARI focused the archives,” Mr. Britting told the audience, “is to “It was a great experience for us,” said ARI’s on promoting Ayn Rand’s fiction and nonfic- document Ayn Rand’s activities during her lifetime education programs specialist, Matt Ludin, who was tion, scholarship based on Ayn Rand as well as by preserving the physical evidence of her life and present at the conference. “We saw our efforts at the Institute’s resources for professors. The APA her work.” work with numerous teachers relaying to us success conference enabled us to inform academic phi- Mr. Britting focused on the development of stories they’ve had with the novels supplied through losophers of the Institute’s activities, including our Atlas Shrugged from Ayn Rand’s first idea for the the Institute’s Free Books project. Routinely teach- professor-outreach efforts. novel in 1943 to her writing of the novel in the ers tell us that Anthem or The Fountainhead is the Attending these conferences serves ARI’s 1940s while living in Los Angeles. The reading students’ favorite book of the year. Many teachers mission by helping to promote our programs to also included information regarding Ayn Rand’s tell us that a few of their students enjoyed the nov- the teachers and professors who can use them to plan, as a youth in Russia, for a novel about people els so much they went on to read Atlas Shrugged expose high school and college students to on strike against a collectivist world. Mr. Britting and the nonfiction. One teacher told me he had been Ayn Rand’s books and ideas; and to make aca- used several exhibit images as a springboard for an teaching English for thirty years and teaching The demia more hospitable to Objectivist professors. examination of the development of the novel. The Fountainhead the past year was by far the best thing talk was followed by a twenty-minute question- and-answer period, which explored further Ayn Rand’s work on the novel in Hollywood. “Ayn Rand in Hollywood” runs at the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Notice to Stock Donors Library through February. Beginning in Janu- ary, the Ayn Rand Film Series opens with a RI is using a new brokerage account for gifts of long-term, appreciated securities from donors. Such screening of the Academy Award-nominated Agifts provide double tax savings: a charitable deduction for the fair market value of the securities, feature documentary Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life plus avoidance of capital gain tax on the appreciation. If you already contribute shares of stock or mutual at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s funds as part of your support of the Institute, you will want to update your records with the new account Bing Theatre on January 13, 2007. Subsequent information. 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During the Objectivist con- Ayn Rand Bookstore. Media Highlights ference in Boston last sum- Remembrances related by Mrs. Sures at the mer, ARI hosted a luncheon Boston event included the intrigues surrounding a ARI’s media appearances help to raise awareness of for participants in the Atlantis special gift for Mr. O’Connor’s 75th birthday; the Institute and of Ayn Rand’s ideas. Here are a few Legacy, ARI’s planned giv- a charming vignette involving Ayn Rand, recent highlights. ing program. On this Mrs. Sures and Godiva chocolates; and • A story in Publishers Weekly highlighted the biography occasion, special guest Mary Ann fond memories of a Circle Line cruise Ayn Rand by ARI archivist Jeff Britting. “Little Books, Big Sures shared remembrances of around in 1976, among Success,” by Dermot McEvoy, discussed the growing Ayn Rand with the attendees. many other topics. popularity of small books—that is, “tiny” books, smaller Mrs. Sures’ remarks Atlantis Legacy donors in size than typical trade paperbacks. Mr. Britting’s book were recorded for the are those who have arranged made the list as the best-selling edition in Overlook’s Ayn Rand Archives, a bequests and other estate Illustrated Lives series. The article was published in the special collection of the gifts to ARI by including October 30, 2006, edition. Britting’s book, Ayn Rand, is Institute. Complimentary the Institute as a primary available for purchase from the Ayn Rand Bookstore. copies of the recording or contingent beneficiary Visit www.aynrandbookstore.com. are available on request through a will, insurance exclusively to Atlantis policy, retirement plan, • Dr. , ARI’s executive director, has appeared Legacy donors. If you have etc., and/or of a specialized on CNBC’s nationally televised show On the Money five times since September 2006. He discussed the arranged a planned gift ben- charitable gift plan. Donors United Nations, New York City’s trans fat ban, CEO efiting ARI and would like to who have arranged planned pay, fraud charges being brought against UBS Finan- have a copy, simply complete gifts but have not informed ARI cial Services by New York’s attorney general and CEO and mail the reply card enclosed are encouraged to do so and be rec- compensation packages. with this issue of Impact. ognized as Atlantis Legacy participants Mrs. Sures, an art historian, and her hus- (see the enclosed insert). • Dr. , ARI senior fellow and Dean of the band, the late Charles Sures, had a close friend- For more information about planned giving OAC, appeared on On the Money to discuss the ship with Ayn Rand and Frank O’Connor for and the Atlantis Legacy, contact Kathy Cross at National Federation of the Blind’s lawsuit against many years. Mr. and Mrs. Sures’ 2001 memoir, 310-876-1633 or [email protected]; also visit Target. The show aired on September 13, 2006. Facets of Ayn Rand, is available from the www.atlantislegacy.org.  Interview with Richard E. Ralston

Richard E. Ralston is was that she was now an established best-selling spine, and to me these are the best spines we’ve ARI’s publishing man- writer, thanks to The Fountainhead. She had far ever had in paperbacks. All of these really pop out. ager. After serving seven more control over the publishing process. Impact: Can you say more about the sales years in the U.S. Army, Ayn Rand did not then have a positive esti- figures? Mr. Ralston completed mate of Bobbs-Merrill, and there was a lot of RR: Atlas Shrugged was published in October an M.A. in international interest among various publishers in the novel, so 1957. My guess is that sales in the first year were relations at the University some kind of a pitch was put together for them, probably about 100,000, which was definitely of Southern California one of which was . a best-seller in the 1950s. By the time Random in 1977. He then began This led to meetings with , the House’s hardcover rights for Atlas Shrugged went a career in newspaper president of Random House, which went very to Penguin in 1991, their total lifetime sales were Richard E. Ralston publishing and direct mar- well. He immediately perceived what Atlas about a quarter of a million. keting. He has been the Shrugged was. He said, “You’re challenging two A few years after the hardcover publication, circulation director and publisher of The Christian thousand years of Judeo-Christian tradition.” He got the paperback rights to Science Monitor, a radio producer, a national got it. And he famously proposed that Rand have Atlas Shrugged, as they had to The Fountainhead, news business manager and a book a contest between all the publishers that were and that’s where the great volume of sales started. publisher. As an independent direct marketing con- going for the novel. He suggested she ask each In terms of history of sales, Atlas has sold sultant, his clients included IBM, British Airways, one to come up with ideas for how they would six million copies in English worldwide. That’s CNN and the . His book Com- publish and promote Atlas, and Rand was so a conservative figure. That’s net sales, not books munism: Its Rise and Fall in the 20th Century was impressed by the suggestion that she just went in print, which would be a much higher number. published in 1991. He edited the book Why Busi- with Random House. Whatever the translation sales are, no one knows. nessmen Need in 1999, and was the Impact: Were there any attempts by Random It is remarkable for such a massive novel, revision editor of two books by Ayn Rand in 2005: House to edit her? given its seriousness and the demands it places Three Plays and The Early Ayn Rand. Mr. Ralston RR: Well there were no successful attempts. on the reader, to sell that well. There’s not really contributed chapters on the publishing history of There were never any successful attempts to edit much precedent. Ayn Rand’s first three novels to the books Essays her. To be clear, she welcomed suggestions and Ayn Rand thought, and I think her view is on Ayn Rand’s “,” Essays on I think the best example of that is the title. Until accurate, that word of mouth was the primary Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” and Essays on Ayn Rand’s very late, the working title of Atlas Shrugged was means of increasing sales of her books. Only in “The Fountainhead,” edited by Robert Mayhew. “The Strike.” When it was pointed out to her that the case of The Fountainhead can a movie be Mr. Ralston recently sat down with Impact to the title gave away the plot, she immediately went said to have had an impact on sales, in that The discuss the publication history of Ayn Rand’s novel to her husband Frank O’Connor’s suggestion of Fountainhead went back on to the best-seller lists Atlas Shrugged as ARI prepares to celebrate the Atlas Shrugged. She was open to suggestions, but when the movie was released in 1949. There’s 50th anniversary of its publication. what she was always adamant about was that any never been an Atlas Shrugged movie so that has changes were to be made by her. not been a factor. * * * Impact: What did Random House do to Since her death in 1982, and particularly start- promote the novel? ing in the nineties, there’s been a steady increase Impact: What was Ayn Rand’s experience with RR: Random House did do more promo- in sales of her books, in terms of the long-term publishing prior to Atlas Shrugged? tion than had been done with any of her other trends. Annual sales of Atlas Shrugged have never Richard Ralston: In a word, awful. With her works. She was always in near despair at how been below about 130,000 in the last ten years first novel, We the Living, Ayn Rand was attempt- ineptly her previous books had been promoted, and have been as high as 150,000. The Fountain- ing to publish a novel critical of , and which was either not at all or by some blithering head’s figures are slightly lower, but only slightly. specifically of Soviet Russia, at a time—this was idiot who had no idea what was in the book. The Today Ayn Rand’s sales are twice what they during the thirties—when the entire New York people who do book advertising, promotion and were the year of her death. publishing world was antagonistic toward anything marketing don’t read the books—if they did, they Impact: What explains that? critical of Stalin’s “great social experiment.” would spend all their time reading—so they don’t RR: I would name three . She was finally able to find a publisher, necessarily have a good grasp of what’s going The first , word of mouth. That is still in Macmillan, who published We the Living in 1936, on. For example, the advertising for The Foun- my view the primary factor in increasing sales. printing three thousand copies. The book had a tainhead either assumed that it was just a novel The second reason is the cumulative impact slow early sale. Eighteen months later, however, about architecture or it was just a torrid, steamy of twenty-one years of all of ARI’s programs. I sales were picking up, but, in violation of con- . would say the essay contest more than anything, tract, Macmillan let the book go out of print—and Radom House did all the publicity things right but generally speaking, all of ARI’s programs. destroyed the printing plates for the book. They in terms of the promotion, the advertising, the par- And the third reason is me . . . broadly said they would reprint the book if Rand guaran- ties for the literati in New York—they even gave defined. teed them her next novel for an advance of two her the infamous dollar sign cigarettes, of which In publishing it’s good to have a major hundred and fifty dollars. She politely declined. we still have some in the Ayn Rand Archives, a publisher; there are many advantages. The only As an aside, due to some odd curiosity, special collection of the . It was significant disadvantage is how difficult it is to get Ayn Rand was much better received in England a thorough, competent promotion, followed by management attention. All of the romance and sex in the thirties and forties than in the . strong sales. appeal is in publishing current best-sellers. That’s Cassell in Great Britain published We the Living Impact: Atlas Shrugged has had a number of where their attention goes—not to a backlist title and kept it in print for twenty years. Anthem, different covers over the years. What kind of input like Atlas Shrugged. which Rand wrote in 1937, was similarly snapped did Ayn Rand have on that? As a dilettant of publishing—I published right up by Cassell, even though she never found RR: She was always hands on. She was some books in the eighties—I was aware of that an American publisher for it until much later. Of always as involved as she could be with those reality. So in 1993 I proposed to course today she is not well known in England. details, and it is safe to say that generally speak- and Michael Berliner that I would sit down once Now with The Fountainhead, Rand’s agent ing she approved all of the covers in her lifetime. a month and have lunch with a mid-level manager Ann Watkins was initially very enthused about Since her death Dr. Peikoff has always insisted on or an editor at Penguin and help keep them aware the novel. She personally guaranteed that Rand approving the covers. He doesn’t decide what the of Ayn Rand’s works. would get a big advance from someone. But as covers are going to be, but he can reject proposals. The idea was to engage in systematic and con- that failed to materialize, Watkins become more In my personal opinion, the purpose of a sistent badgering, harassment and encouragement and more negative about the book and began book cover is to sell the book. The purpose of a of Penguin to get them to do things that would telling Rand what was wrong with it and why it book cover is not to be a perfect expression of normally not be done for a backlist. At least by would never sell. Objectivist romantic realism in art. When a new doing that, if Ayn Rand’s works were not included Ultimately thirteen publishers declined to pub- cover is being considered, the publisher proposes in an effort or push or catalog or show, it would lish The Fountainhead. It wasn’t until Ayn Rand book covers and I convey them to Dr. Peikoff, be because someone decided not to include them found Archie Ogden, a young editor at Bobbs- sometimes with recommendations, sometimes rather than because we weren’t on their radar. Merrill, who realized what he had on his hands not, and Dr. Peikoff accepts or rejects them. His Penguin is an excellent publisher. We’ve had and was willing to fight the internal battle neces- acceptance does not imply that he likes the art. many successes in getting them to do various sary to get the novel published, that she finally My recommendations, either for or against, are things. For example, at that time there were no found a publisher. based on an answer to the question: Is it an effec- trade paperback editions of her works. I said, So all the way through The Fountainhead, tive bookselling design? Is it something that gets “Look, I’m a very typical person. I read The she struggled to find publishers for her works, picked up off the shelf? That’s its purpose. Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged in the sixties, and struggled also to get them to promote her In this respect, I think the latest redesign is and now I’m long into bifocals and inevitably works properly. terrific. My artistic opinion is irrelevant here. The heading toward trifocals, and those mass market Impact: How was her experience with Atlas reason I like these is because of the spines. Nine editions were tough.” So at my nudging Penguin Shrugged different? times out of ten when you see a mass market did a trade version of The Fountainhead first and RR: What was unique about Atlas Shrugged paperback in a bookstore, what you see is the continued on page 4  Objectivist Summer Conference 2007 will, the difference between motivation by love Notice: Employees and Retirees Preview: Celebrating Atlas Shrugged, and by fear, and Man’s Life as the standard of at General Electric continued from page 1 value. By showing how these principles are pre- sented through the novel’s plot, the course fosters ere is an opportunity for a small gift to have a deeper appreciation of Atlas Shrugged as a work characterization, significant changes in Galt’s Ha very large impact on the advancement of plot function and in his relationships with other of philosophy and of literature. Objectivism in academia. General Electric will characters, inspirations from fiction and from life, match gifts to the Anthem Foundation for editing for style and content (dialogue, descrip- Objectivist Scholarship if at least ten current or tion and Galt’s speech), the phrase “Who is John retired employees donate at least $25 each to the Galt?”—and John Galt’s original name. Interview with Richard E. Ralston Foundation. Anthem already receives over $25,000 continued from page 3 from GE donors, but there are not enough such Atlas Shrugged as a Work of Philosophy donors to qualify for the matching gift. A few (Optional Course) then gradually went on to do the other trade edi- more gifts of $25 or more would enable Anthem to by Greg Salmieri tions, and that’s where a lot of the new sales have receive over $25,000 from GE. If you or someone you know works at or has retired from GE and Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s most complete been generated. would consider a small gift to the Foundation, presentation of Objectivism. In this course we The most successful thing Penguin has done has been the summer and early fall tabletop please contact Dr. John P. McCaskey, Anthem’s consider Atlas as a work of philosophy. We see president at [email protected] or displays in the national bookstore chains. For the how philosophical principles are induced by Ted Gray, a GE employee and Anthem donor, at the protagonists from the events of the novel last four years we have consistently been on the [email protected]. and how the speeches consolidate this induced “Summer Reading” or “Back to School” tables The Anthem Foundation for Objectivist knowledge, preparing the characters and readers and that’s been very successful. Scholarship is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, to induce more abstract principles. 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