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The Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Passion of Ayn Rand about?
The 2013 edition of the New York Times bestseller with an important new introduction by the author. The Passion of Ayn Rand was the first full-length Ayn Rand biography ever published and this eBook edition is the most comprehensive biographical study of Rand available. Barbara Branden was a personal friend of Ayn Rand from 1950 to 1968 and wrote the only authorized biographical essay about her, Who Is Ayn Rand? To write this book Branden drew from over 40 hours of taped interviews with Rand and interviewed more than two hundred other people, including Rand’s sister, aunt and cousins, in-laws, associates from her days in Hollywood, and early conservative and libertarian friends. “Who was Ayn Rand?” asked George Gilder in the Washington Post Book Review . “The answer emerges at last in a superb biography written with much of the sweep, drama and narrative momentum of the great works of Ayn Rand herself.” This biography begins with Rand’s early life in Russia, where she was born and grew up amid the nightmare of the Communist revolution. The reader then travels with her to America, where eventually the “Ayn Rand nation” would make her a bestselling writer, avidly
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Barbara Branden
- Publisher
- Anchor Books : Doubleday
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385191715
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography
- Rating
- 3.74 / 5 (1,563 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14