Gore Vidal on Ayn Rand in 1961: ‘She Has a Great Attraction for Simple People’

Ayn Rand
“This odd little woman is attempting to give a moral sanction to greed and self interest,” Gore Vidal said of Ayn Rand,
writing for Esquire in July 1961, “and to pull it off she must at times indulge in purest Orwellian newspeak of the
‘freedom is slavery’ sort.”
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