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Ayn Rand and the World She Made (2009)

door Anne Conover Heller

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A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.… (meer)
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ספר ארוך, מפורט (מדי) ומרתק על חייה של הסופרת והפילוסופית. סיפור מרתק ומדכא כאחד על גולברית מוקפת גמדים שכולם דוחים ולא נורמלים באותה מידה. ( )
  amoskovacs | Jul 20, 2017 |
A very well-researched biography of this writer and philosopher. I listened to it as an audiobook (did not see the listing here on LT at this time), and discovered an author willing to tackle the myth of Ayn Rand. Heller digs right in with Rand's growing up as a Jewish merchant-class girl, different from her sisters right from the start, in Russia before the Revolution. Details about her family's life under Soviet occupation are documented, as are the difficulties faced by many of their class during this time. Her ability to immigrate to family in the US is fortunate for her; she lives with cousins in NY and Chicago, and it is in NY that she becomes infatuated with skyscrapers. Unfortunately for her family in the US and still in the Soviet Union, she neither pays her debts that she accumulated in the US, nor does she seek to get her family out of their own hell. Heller is quite comfortable calling Rand out on her narcissism and on her re-writing of her own history; Rand wrote that it is every man for himself and no one should help another while living quite a different reality. She also manages to outstay her visa, causing her to be an illegal immigrant until she marries an American and is able to live in the US as a legal citizen.

I read The Fountainhead a number of years back, and liked the idea of sticking to one's dreams and visions even if it makes you an outsider. The rape scene was horrible to read, and Heller does articulate the passage as an example of Rand's infatuation with her strong male characters, and I was also struck in Fountainhead with the radio host who does not believe his own schtick of ugliness countered by the "everyman" architect who thinks that the host's word is gospel. Quite a precursor to modern alt-right radio.

Good, well-researched biography, lots of good information, and worth borrowing a copy. ( )
  threadnsong | Oct 2, 2016 |
An interesting look at a ridiculous woman. ( )
1 stem smlyniec | Jun 19, 2013 |
Well-researched, revealing biography of the founder of Objectivism. It made me dig out my copy of Atlas Shrugged to read it again. ( )
  Bellettres | May 16, 2011 |
This biography attempts to explain the intriguing character of Ayn Rand, to place her person as separate to her ideas, as much as such a thing is possible. Heller's own feelings or opinions of Rand's ideas and behavior only come through occasionally, but just often enough to remind the reader that there is in fact a person behind all these words, and peering in on a life that doesn't stand up quite so well to scrutiny as the person living it would have liked.

Still, Ayn Rand's ideas, especially early in her life, are the stuff of legend, and worth revisiting in the context that created her. ( )
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I confess that enthusiasm for [Ayn Rand] is to me utterly mysterious, and the excellent new biography by Ann C. Heller does not clear up the mystery but, rather, deepens it. Able and gifted people (not the least of them Alan Greenspan) were captivated both by her writings and her person, but the picture of Rand that emerges from Ms. Heller’s book is all the more damning because the biographer is obviously fair-minded and, indeed, something of an admirer of her subject.
toegevoegd door Shortride | bewerkThe New Critieron, Anthony Daniels (Feb 1, 2010)
 
In Heller's admirably evenhanded portrait, Rand appears as having been single-minded, ruthless, and beyond either modesty or embarrassment in her determination to succeed.
toegevoegd door Shortride | bewerkBookforum, Francine Prose (Dec 1, 2009)
 
So how did this little Russian bomb of pure immorality in a black wig become an American icon?

Two new biographies of Rand—Goddess of the Market by Jennifer Burns and Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne Heller—try to puzzle out this question, showing how her arguments found an echo in the darkest corners of American political life. But the books work best, for me, on a level I didn't expect. They are thrilling psychological portraits of a horribly damaged woman who deserves the one thing she spent her life raging against: compassion.
toegevoegd door Shortride | bewerkSlate, Johann Hari (Nov 2, 2009)
 
While it’s not hard to understand Rand’s revenge-fantasy appeal to those on the right, would-be Galts ought to hear the story Anne C. Heller has to tell in her dramatic and very timely biography, “Ayn Rand and the World She Made.”

For one thing, it is far more interesting than anything in Rand’s novels.
 
Ms. Heller has delivered a thoughtful, flesh-and-blood portrait of an extremely complicated and self-contradictory woman, coupling this character study with literary analysis and plumbing the quirkier depths of Rand’s prodigious imagination.
toegevoegd door Shortride | bewerkThe New York Times, Janet Maslin (Oct 22, 2009)
 
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“Rand immigrated to America from Soviet Russia in 1926, without much English, to pursue a career in writing. Her early years in America were hard, but not as hard as she later claimed they were. ‘No one helped me, nor did I think it was anyone’s duty to help me,’ she wrote in an afterword to Atlas Shrugged. In fact, many people helped her.”

Chapter One, pp. 7-8

“When Rand was five or so, she recalled, her mother came into the children’s playroom and found the floor littered with toys. She announced to Rand and Rand’s two-and-a-half-year-old sister, Natasha, that they would have to choose some of their toys to put away and some to keep and play with now; in a year, she told them, they could trade the toys they had kept for those they had put away. Natasha held on to the toys she loved best, but Rand, imagining the pleasure she would get from having her favorite toys returned to her later, handed over her best-loved playthings, including a painted mechanical wind-up chicken she could describe vividly fifty years later. When the time came to make the swap and Rand asked for her toys back, her mother looked amused, Rand recalled. Anna explained that she had given everything to an orphanage, on the premise that if her daughters had really wanted their toys they wouldn’t have relinquished them in the first place. This may have been Rand’s first encounter with injustice masquerading as what she would later acidly call ‘altruism.’ “
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