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...former Young Republicans, Y AFers, Buckleyites and Birchers, suddenly turned libertarian. Converted socialists and liberals comprise the rest of NRC's ranks. But one common thread is found through all: practically every member of NRC credits her or his transformation, and determination, to a 68 year-old novelist named Ayn Rand--the philosopher of greed...
...Ayn Rand has been something of a terror to the American Right for 30 years. A short, thick-voiced, quick-tempered woman, she left Soviet Russia in 1923, made her way to California, found bit roles in movies, married, and began to teach herself to write. Driven by a distaste for communism and a strong desire to be left alone, she finished in 1943 a huge, finely plotted novel about an iconoclastic architect. The book--The Fountainhead--told the story of a man who dynamited a public housing project because officials had altered his design in violation of previous promises...
...rise of the libertarians can be traced mainly to the publication of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged in 1958. Buckley had repeatedly vilified the Randist movement for its orthodoxy in his National Review, but it was sufficiently large and committed to be worth courting. Besides, the "Objectivists," as they called themselves, were too independent-and a Buckley-dominated political coalition would tend to bring them into the conservative fold. In 1960, at the Buckley estate in Sharon, Connecticut, the fledgling Young Americans for Freedom adopted planks designed to bring the Objectivists and other libertarians into their organization...
...stage was being prepared for Goldwater's nomination by the Republican Party in 1964, Buckley, F. Clifton White, and William Rusher (publisher of National Review ) had effective control of a youthful right-wing coalition whose members ranged from rabid anti-Communists to near-anarchists. All enthusiastically supported Goldwater-even Ayn Rand, supremely contemptuous of politics, said that he was the first presidential candidate since Thomas Jefferson that she respected...
...similar path. The head of the University of North Carolina's Conservative Club resigned to become an active New Leftist; an entire YAF chapter at the University of Kansas voted to become an SDS chapter; the head of YAF at Brooklyn College became a left-wing anarchist; and an Ayn Randist who had spied on SDS in New Jersey for the House Committee on Un-American Activities became a member...