Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right Read Online Free PDF

profession. When historians first turned their attention to the success of conservative politics and ideas, many have noted Rand’s presence among the thinkers who inspired a rising generation. Earlier work on conservatism tended to make perfunctory acknowledgment of Rand or situate her as an irrelevant outcast from mainstream conservatism. George Nash’s seminal The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 (1975) framed Rand as an extremist outsider effectively silenced by Buckley’s National Review , an interpretation Buckley himself promoted in his fictional Getting It Right (2003). Still, for much of this early work Rand remained a cipher. For example, Lisa McGirr’s excellent study, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001), inadvertently quotes Rand several times as she describes the libertarian worldview of Orange County activists. In one of the few academic discussions of the student libertarian movement, Jonathan Schoenwald’s essay in the edited volume The Vietnam War on Campus: Other Voices, More Distant Drums (2001) ignores Rand and identifies Murray Rothbard as the sole source of right-wing radicalism. Rand and libertarianism more generally are given a thorough, albeit brief, treatment by John Kelley in Bringing the Market Back In: The Political Revitalization of Market Liberalism (1997).
    As historians have begun to locate the origins of conservatism in reaction against the New Deal and thereby accord more weight to business libertarianism, Rand has emerged as a figure of greater consequence. In Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (2009), Kimberly Phillips-Fein asserts the centrality of libertarian businessmen to the conservative renaissance, an important new line of interpretation that is being followed by a host of emerging scholars. Phillips-Fein notes Rand’s popularity among businessmen and describes her early political activism. Although not academic in nature, Brian Doherty’s celebratory Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (2007) also recognizes Rand as a foundational thinker of libertarianism, alongside F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Murray Rothbard. Taken together, these books indicate a new interest in the history of libertarianism and a dawning understanding that political conservatism draws from both secular and religious roots. As historians continue to explore the importance of economic individualism, Rand will take her deserved place within the right-wing firmament.

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