The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivism

Synopsis

In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces are gathered together in book form for the first time. Written in the last decades of Rands life, they reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rands longtime associate and literary executor. The work concludes with Peikoffs epilogue, My Thirty Years with Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir, which answers the question What was Ayn Rand really like? Important reading for all thinking individuals, this collection communicates not only Rands singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural and political analysis to which it gives rise.