Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden on CSPAN 5/11-12/02

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Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 6:50 PM on CSPAN2
Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 10:50 AM on CSPAN2

http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dschedule

Booknotes
Judgment Day
C-SPAN
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 8219 - 06/27/1989 - 1:08 - $24.95 for tape

Branden, Nathaniel, Director, Nathaniel Brandon Institute (1989-)

Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand, is Nathaniel
Branden's memoir of his 18-year relationship with
Ms. Rand. Mr. Branden discusses Ms. Rand's philosophy
as a champion of the individual and an advocate of
capitalism. He also includes his experience as a
confidant of Ms. Rand and a member of her inner circle
and concludes by discussing the influence of Ms.
Rand's philosophy on members of the Reagan administration. 

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Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 3:00 PM on CSPAN for 2 Hrs
(note: may start of end earlier)
Program re-airs Friday May 17 on C-SPAN at 8pm ET

C-SPAN radio, DC at 90.1 FM, Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 5:30PM

http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/rand.asp

Call-In
Writings of Ayn Rand
C-SPAN, American Writers
Hollywood, California (United States)
ID: 169959 - 05/12/2002 - 2:00 - Video will be available

Daniels, Eric, Professor, Duke University, Political History (2000-)
Britting, Jeff, Filmmaker (2000-)
Peikoff, Leonard, Scholar (2000-)

From Sunset Boulevard and the Harmony Gold Theater,
the guests talk about the political history of
America and the World from the mid-1930s to
post-World War II through the life and writings
of novelist, screenwriter, and philosopher Ayn Rand.
With a specific look at Rand's philosophy of
Objectivism, they examine why her writings gained
currency in the time period and what influence they
have had since. They respond to audience telephone
calls, faxes and electronic mail. Mr. Britting
produced the film, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life. 

Hollywood in the 30s and 40s plays a vital role
in the life of Ayn Rand and the dissemination of
her ideas, both through her writings in The
Fountainhead, which came out in 1943 and the movie
of it which hit the screen in 1949 (with Gary
Cooper as the lead). The focus is on Rand and
the politics of the time period, the communist
scares in the U.S. and in Hollywood specifically
and what political currents were running in the
country and why Rand's ideas had appeal to some. 

Ayn Rand was born in Russia in 1905 as Alisa
Rosenbaum. She came to America in 1926, changed
her name and never returned to her mother country.
Her two novels, The Fountainhead (1943), and
Atlas Shrugged, laid out her ideals of the
supremacy of individual reason and rights over
collective thought, which later became known
as her philosophy of "Objectivism." 

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