The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought by Ayn Rand [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1989 • NAL

The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought by Ayn Rand [The Ayn Rand Library Vol. 5]

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1989] NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition with flaws.

Dust jacket is clean and in tact but visibly tanned.  Ships in a new HQ jacket protector.

Book itself has some tanning to boards and pages. A few very mild damp stains to upper text block (see photos).  And a few pin sized spots to front endpaper.

Actual contents read clean, bright, unmarked and seemingly unread pages. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Between 1961, when she gave her first talk at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, and 1981, when she gave the last talk of her life in New Orleans, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as varied as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces, written in the last decades of Rand's life, are gathered in book form for the first time. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and literary executor. The work concludes with Peikoff's epilogue, "My Thirty Years With Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir," which answers the question "What was Ayn Rand really like?" Important reading for all thinking individuals, Rand's later writings reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. This collection communicates not only Rand's singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural and political analysis to which it gives rise.