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When I arrived at graduate school at Indiana University in 1967, I saw an index card among others of its kind neatly affixed to a bulletin board on the outside of the humanities building. It read:
Who is John Galt?
John Galt, b. 1779 d. 1839 Scottish writer and colonial official, author of The Annals of the Parish, Ringan Gilhaize and other novels, histories and poems, and founder of the city of Guelph in Canada.
From the first, I recognized commercial popular culture as the authentic native voice of America … I’m very happy to be considered one of [Ayn Rand’s] successors, even if not influenced by her directly … She and I say to people, “Think for yourself! Stop going along with the group!”
Camille Paglia1
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Wilt, J. (2014). The Hero as Expert: Ayn Rand’s Romances of Choice. In: Women Writers and the Hero of Romance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426987_5
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