RAND, Ayn.

Textbook of Americanism.

New York: Nathaniel Branden Institute, circa 1959.

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First Separate Edition of Ayn Rand's Textbook of Americanism

First separate edition of Ayn Rand’s concise question-and-answer primer contrasting the principles of individualism and collectivism. Octavo, stapled in the original printed wrappers. Bringing together the twelve completed articles that first appeared in The Vigil in 1946, this Nathaniel Branden Institute pamphlet predates the later Objectivist printing. In near fine condition, with light toning to the wrappers.

Textbook of Americanism is a series of political questions and answers written by Ayn Rand in 1946, in which she sets out, in deliberately plain and catechistic form, the fundamental principles of individualism as against collectivism, the nature of individual rights, and the proper limits of the power of society. The articles first appeared in The Vigil, the publication of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, of which Rand was a prominent member; the projected series was left unfinished, and only the first twelve questions were completed. This pamphlet was issued by the Nathaniel Branden Institute, the organization founded in 1958 to promote Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism through lectures and publications. Rand, the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, remains among the most widely read and influential American writers of the twentieth century.