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Author:
Jeff Riggenbach
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Ayn Rand’s books sell between eight hundred thousand and a million copies a year. Her first novel We the Living was admired by Mencken. Night of January 16th opened on Broadway. Her major novel The Fountainhead (1943) was “masterful”. In the fifties, Rand (50) and Nathaniel Branden (25) begin a romantic affair with the consent of their spouses.