Ayn Rand Analyzed Bibliography
Ayn Rand’s Fiction
Rand, A. (1936). We The Living. New York: Signet Books.
Rand, A. (1943). The Fountainhead. New York: Signet Books.
Rand, A. (1957). Atlas Shrugged. New York: Signet Books.
Rand, A. (1961). Anthem. New York: Signet Books.
Rand, A. (1999). The Ayn Rand Reader. Eds. Gary Hull and
Leonard Peikoff. New York: Plume.
Rand, A. (2005). Ayn Rand Three Plays: Night of January 16th,
Ideal, Think Twice. New York: Signet Books.
Rand, A. (2005). The Early Ayn Rand Revised Edition: A
Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction. Ed. Leonard Peikoff.
New York: Signet Books.
Rand, A. (2015). Ideal: The Novel and the Play. New York:
New American Library.
Ayn Rand’s Non-Fiction
Rand, A. (1961). For the New Intellectual. New York: Signet Books.
Rand, A. (1964). The Virtue of Selfishness. New York: Signet Books.
Rand, A. (1967). Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. With Additional Articles by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, & Robert Hessen. New York: Signet Books.
Rand, A. (1975). The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature. Second Revised Edition. New York: Signet Books.
Rand, A. (1984). Philosophy Who Needs It. New York: Signet Books.
Rand, A. (1984). The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection From Her Unpublished Fiction. Ed. Peikoff, L. New York: New American Library.
Rand, A. (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism From A to Z. Ed. Harry Binswanger. New York: Meridian Books.
Rand, A. (1990). Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. Expanded 2nd Edition. Eds. Harry Binswanger & Leonard Peikoff. New York: Meridian Books.
Rand, A. (1990). The Ayn Rand Library (Volume IV): The Voice of Reason Essays in Objectivist Thought. Ed. Leonard Peikoff. New York: Meridian Books.
Rand, A. (1995). Ayn Rand’s Marginalia: Her Critical Comments on the writings of 20 authors. Ed. Mayhew, R. Connecticut: Second Renaissance Books.
Rand, A. (1997). Harriman, D. Ed. Journals of Ayn Rand. New York: Plume Books.
Rand, A. (1997). Letters of Ayn Rand. Ed. Berliner, M. New York: Plume.
Rand, A. (1998). The Ayn Rand Column: Written for the Los Angeles Times (Revised Edition). California: The Ayn Rand Institute Press.
Rand, A. (1999). Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. Edited with An Introduction and Additional Essays by Peter Schwartz. New York: Meridian Books.
Rand, A. (2000). The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers. New York: Plume.
Rand, A. (2001). The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers. New York: Plume.
Rand, A. (2005). Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A. Centennial Edition. Ed. Robert Mayhew. New York: New American Library.
Rand, A. (2018). A New Textbook of Americanism: The Politics of Ayn Rand. Ed Jonathan Hoenig. Chicago: Capitalist Pig Publications.
Rand, A. Podritske, M. Ed. (2009). Objectively Speaking: Ayn Rand Interviewed. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Ayn Rand’s Audio Lectures
Rand, A. (1973). Ford Hall Forum. The Ayn Rand Institute (Producer). Censorship: Local and Express. [CD]. Available from https://estore.aynrand.org/.
Rand, A. (1989). The Ayn Rand Institute (Producer). Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World. [Cassette]. Available from https://estore.aynrand.org/.
Criticism of “Atlas Shrugged”
Bernstein, A. (2000). CliffsNotes on Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. New York: Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company.
Bernstein, Andrew. (1994). The Ayn Rand Institute (Producer). The Mind as Hero in Atlas Shrugged. [CD]. Available from https://estore.aynrand.org/
Biddle, Craig. (2011). Ed. Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Masterpiece Hits the Silver Screen & Economics in Atlas Shrugged. The Objectivist Standard, Vol 6, No. 1.
Block, Walter, E. (2016). Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Libertarnism. (pp. 269-286). In Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature: Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays. Ed. Edward W. Younkins. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Brook, Y. (2009). Ed. Biddle, C. Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and the World Today. The Objectivist Standard. Vol.4, No.1.
Mayhew, R. (2009). Essays on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Berliner, M.S. (2009). The Atlas Shrugged Reviews. (pp. 133-145). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Bernstein, A (2009). Atlas Shrugged as the Culmination of the Romantic Novel. (pp. 167-190). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Binswanger, H. (2009). A Tale of Two Novels. (pp. 191-194). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Boeckmann, (2009). Atlas Shrugged and the Metaphysics of Values. (pp. 149-166). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Boeckmann, T. (2009). A Note of Francisco’s Ancestry. (pp. 105-112). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Britting, J. (2009). Adapting Atlas Shrugged to Film. (pp. 195-218). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Ghate, D. (2009). The Businessmen’s Crucial Role: Material Men of the Mind. (pp.299-316). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Ghate, O. (2009). The Part and Chapter Headings of Atlas Shrugged. (pp.1-52). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Ghate, O. (2009). The Role of Galt’s Speech in Atlas Shrugged. (pp. 363-374). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Gotthelf, A. (2009). A Note on Dagny’s Final Choice. (pp..453-466). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Gotthelf, A. (2009). Galt’s Speech in Five Sentence (and Forty Questions). (pp. 374-396). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Lock, Edwin, A. (2009). The Traits of Business Heroes in Atlas Shrugged. (pp. 317-334). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Milgram, S. (2009). The Spirit of Francisco d’Anconia: The Development of his Characterization. (pp. 79-104). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Milgram, S. (2009). Who Was John Galt? The Creation of Ayn Rand’s Ultimate Ideal Man. (pp. 53-78). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Peikoff, L. (2009). Reply to Whittaker Chambers. (pp. 145-149). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Ralston, R. E. (2009). Publishing Atlas Shrugged. (pp. 123-132). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Salmieri, G. (2009). Appendix A: Outline of Atlas Shrugged. (pp.467-473). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Salmieri, G. (2009). Atlas Shrugged on the Role of the Mind in Man’s Existence. (pp. 219-252). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Salmieri, G. (2009). Discovering Atlantis: Atlas Shrugged’s Demonstration of a New Moral Philosophy. (pp 397-452). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Smith, T. (2009). Humanity’s Darkest Evil: The Lethal Destructiveness of Non-Objective Law. (335-363). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Smith, T. (2009). No Tributes to Caesar: Good or Evil in Atlas Shrugged. (pp.275-298). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Sures, M.A. (2009). Working for Ayn Rand: Selections from Facets of Ayn Rand. (pp. 113-122). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Wright, D. (2009). Ayn Rand’s Ethics: From The Fountainhead to Atlas Shrugged. (pp. 253-274). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
SparkNotes Editors. (2014). Atlas Shrugged. Spark Notes Study Guide Edition: New York.
Younkins, Edward, E. (2016). Business in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. (pp. 303-329). In Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature: Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays. Ed. Edward W. Younkins. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Criticism of “The Fountainhead”
Bernstein, A. (2000). CliffsNotes on Rand’s The Fountainhead. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Bernstein, A. (2019). Heroes of Great Literature. The Objectivist Standard, 14 (1), pp.15-32.
Bernstein, A. (2009). The Fountainhead. (pp. 119-129). In Ayn Rand for Beginners. Hannover, New Hampshire: Steerforth Press.
Bernstein, A. (2016). The Freedom Gradient in Ayn Rand’s Novels. (pp.279-286). In Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature: Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays. Ed. Edward W. Younkins. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Den Uyl, D., (1999). The Fountainhead: An American Novel. New York: Twayne Publishers.
Gale Cengage Learning. (2017). A Study Guide for Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. New York: Gale Study Guides.
Kline, W. (2016). Identity, Professional Ethics, and Substantive Style in the Fountainhead. In Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature: Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays. Ed. Edward W. Younkins. (pp.287-303). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Mayhew, R. Ed. (2007). Essays on Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead Lanham, Md: Lexington Books.
• Bayer, J.B. (2007). The Fountainhead and the Spirit of Youth. (pp.227-242). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s the Fountainhead. Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Berliner, M. (2007). Howard Roark and Frank Lloyd Wright. (pp. 41-64). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s the Fountainhead. Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Berliner, M. (2007). The Fountainhead Reviews. (pp. 77-85). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s the Fountainhead. Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Bernstein, A. (2007). Understanding the Rape Scene in the Fountainhead. (pp. 201- 208). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s the Fountainhead. Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Boeckman, T. (2007). The Fountainhead as a Romantic Novel. (pp. 119-153). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s the Fountainhead. Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Boeckman, T. (2007). What Might Be and Ought to Be: Aristotle’s Poetics and the Fountainhead. (pp. 155-175). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s the Fountainhead. Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Briting, J. (2007). Adapting the Fountainhead to Film. (p.p. 87-115). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s the Fountainhead. Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Ghate, O. (2007). The Basic Motivation of the Creator and the Masses in The Fountainhead. (pp.243-283). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s the Fountainhead. Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Mayhew, R. (2007). Humor in the Fountainhead (pp. 209-226). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s the Fountainhead. Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Milgram, S. (2007). The Fountainhead from Notebook to Novel: The Composition of Ayn Rand’s First Ideal Man (pp.3-40). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s the Fountainhead. Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Peikoff, A. (2007). A Moral Dynamiting. (pp. 313-324). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s the Fountainhead. Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Ralston, R. (2007). Publishing the Fountainhead. (pp. 65-75). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s the Fountainhead. Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Schein, D. (2007). Roark’s Integrity. (pp. 305-312). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s the Fountainhead. Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Smith, T. (2007). Unborrowed Vision: Independence and Egoism in The Fountainhead. (pp. 285-304). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s the Fountainhead. Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
SparkNotes Editors (2002). Spark Notes on The Fountainhead. New York: SparkNotes Study Guide Edition.
Criticism of “We the Living”
Mayhew, R. (2004) Essays on Ayn Rand’s We the Living.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Garmong, D.S. We the Living and the Rosenbaum Family Letters. (pp.67-85). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• McConnell, S. Parallel Lives: Models and Inspirations for Characters in We the Living. (pp. 47-64). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Milgram, S. (2004). From Airtight to We the Living: The Drafts of Ayn Rand’s First Novel. Essays on Ayn Rand’s We the Living. (pp. 3-45). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Ridpath, J. Russian Revolutionary Ideology and We the Living. (pp.86-??). Ed. Robert Mayhew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
* Citations for more We the Living essays coming soon.
Criticism of “Anthem”
Bernstein, Andrew. (2000). CliffsNotes on Rand’s Anthem. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Mayhew, R. (2005). Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Berliner, Michael, S. (2005). Reviews of Anthem. (pp. 55-60). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Bernstein, A. (2005). Anthem and Collectivist Regression into Primitivism. (pp.299-306). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Binswanger, Harry. (2005). Epilogue: Anthem: An Appreciation. (pp. 307- 310). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Boeckmann, T. (2005). Anthem as a Psychological Fantasy. (pp. 83-118). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Britting, J. (2005). Adapting Anthem: Projects that Were and Might Have Been. (pp. 61-69). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Britting, J. (2005). Anthem and the Individualist Manifesto. (pp. 70-82). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Ghate, Onkar. (2005). Breaking the Metaphysical Chains of Dictatorship: Free Will and Determinism in Anthem. (pp.225-254). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Joseph, Lindsay. (2005). Appendix: Teaching Anthem: A Guide for High School and University Teachers. (pp. 311-324). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Lewis, J. (2005). Sacrilege Toward the Individual: The Anti-Pride of Thomas More’s Utopia and Anthem’s Radical Alternative. (172-189). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Mayhew, R. (2005). Anthem: ’38 & ’46. (pp. 28-54). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Milgram, S. (2005). Anthem in Manuscript: Finding the Words. (pp. 3-23). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Milgram, S. (2005). Anthem in the Context of Related Literary Works: We Are Not Like Our Brothers. (pp. 119-171). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Peikoff, A. (2005). Freedom of Disassociation in Anthem. (pp.285-298). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Ralston, Richard. E. (2005). Publishing Anthem. (pp. 24-27). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Salmieri, G. (2005). Prometheus’ Discovery: Individualism and the Meaning of the Concept “I” in Anthem. (pp. 255-284). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Wright, Darryl. (2005). Needs of the Psyche in Ayn Rand’s Early Ethical Thought. (pp. 190-224). In Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Ed. Robert Mayhew, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
SparkNotes Editors. (2002). Anthem SparkNotes. Spark Notes Study Guide Edition: New York.
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