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Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War ...

Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War ...

Aaron Sheehan-Dean

[42] Rand Dotson, “'The Grave and Scandalous Evil Infected to Your People': The Erosion of Confederate Loyalty in Floyd County, Virginia,” VMHB 108 (2000):430 –31. Dotson provides a compelling account of the escalation of conflict in Floyd ...
African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke: Oral Histories ...

African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke: Oral Histories ...

Scarborough, Sheree

Rand Dotson, Roanoke, Virginia, 1882–1912: Magic City of the New South ( Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007), 67–68. 2. Dotson, Roanoke, 105–07. 3. Leon F. Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow ...
Richard Dotson (1752-1847) and his descendants

Richard Dotson (1752-1847) and his descendants

James M. Dotson

... support of my wife Irma McGinnis Dotson, who got me interested in genealogy in the first place. Her contributions to the research for, and editing of this book, are gratefully acknowledged. How This Book was Prepared for Publication ...
American Guerrillas: From the French and Indian Wars to Iraq ...

American Guerrillas: From the French and Indian Wars to Iraq ...

Thomas D. Mays

Sutherland, A Savage Conflict, 199. 12. Sutherland, A Savage Conflict, 203; Brownlee, Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy, 228–29. 13. Rand Dotson, “'The Grave and Scandalous Evil Infected to Your People': The Erosion of Confederate Loyalty ...
Roanoke, Virginia, 1882-1912: Magic City of the New South

Roanoke, Virginia, 1882-1912: Magic City of the New South

Rand Dotson

With regard to Roanoke as part of Appalachia, see Ann DeWitt Watts, “Cities and Their Place in Southern Appalachia,” Appalachian Journal 8 (Winter 1981): 106– 8; and Gordon B. McKinney, Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865–1900: ...
Ayn Rand Cult

Ayn Rand Cult

Jeff Walker

Though much has been written about Rand, The Ayn Rand Cult is the first book to explain the true origin of her ideas and to show how they were shaped into a new, atheistic religion.
The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

This edition contains a special afterword by Rand’s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, which includes excerpts from Ayn Rand’s own notes on the making of The Fountainhead.
The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Ayn Rand

Begun under Rand's supervision, this unique volume is an invaluable guide to her philosophy or reason, self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism--the philosophy so brilliantly dramatized in her novels The Fountainhead, We the Living, and ...
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine

Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine

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Our McGinn is family: the story of James and Sarah Davis McGinnis and their descendants, supplement / by Irma McGinnis Dotson. Danville, CA: The Author, 1994. From Irma McGinnis Dotson through Mount Diablo Chapter. Gibbons, Tract .
RAND and the Information Evolution: A History in Essays and ...

RAND and the Information Evolution: A History in Essays and ...

Willis H. Ware

As of February 22, 2008: http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2280/ Payne, Sue, MH5: Electronic Mail, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, N-2281-RCC, 1985. As of February 26, 2008: http://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N2281/ Peek, Jerry D.
Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand

Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand

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Preface Nancy Tuana ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Matthew Sciabarra Part One: Looking Back 1 Ayn Rand: The Reluctant Feminist 25 Barbara Branden 2 Ayn Rand and Feminism: An Unlikely ...
The Gospel According to Ayn Rand

The Gospel According to Ayn Rand

Jerome Tuccille

"The Gospel According to Ayn Rand" contains much of the text that appeared in "It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand"-somewhat revised and edited to conform to modern style-plus new chapters dealing with events that took place after the book was ...
The Ayn Rand companion

The Ayn Rand companion

Mimi Reisel Gladstein

A guide that analyzes the plots and characters in Rand's novels and her underlying philosophy.
The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

Ayn Rand

This collection communicates not only Rand's singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural and political analysis to which it gives rise.
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Ayn Rand

In this series of essays, Ayn Rand presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism.
Anthem

Anthem

Ayn Rand

He was a man alone. Ayn Rand's classic tale of a future dark age of the great We -- in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values -- anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
The RAND Corporation (1989-2009): The Reconfiguration of ...

The RAND Corporation (1989-2009): The Reconfiguration of ...

J. Samaan

Based on a case study of the RAND Corporation, this shows how the uncertainties of US defense policies since the fall of the USSR can be understood and illustrated through an analysis of the evolution of the think tank community, and more ...
Philosophy: Who Needs It

Philosophy: Who Needs It

Ayn Rand

This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics.
Paul Rand: Conversations with Students

Paul Rand: Conversations with Students

Michael Kroeger

This latest volume of the popular Conversations with Students series presents Rand's last interview, recorded at Arizona State University one year before his death in 1996.
Ayn Rand and the World She Made

Ayn Rand and the World She Made

Anne C. Heller

Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States.
Paul Rand: Conversations with Students

Paul Rand: Conversations with Students

Michael Kroeger

This latest volume of the popular Conversations with Students series presents Rand's last interview, recorded at Arizona State University one year before his death in 1996.
Ayn Rand Reader

Ayn Rand Reader

Ayn Rand

An impassioned proponent of reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this ...
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

Leonard Peikoff

With Objectivism, the millions of readers who have been transformed by Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead will discover the full philosophical system underlying Ayn Rand’s work. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A

Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A

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Never before available in print, this publishing event is a collection of those enlightening Q & As. This is Ayn Rand on: ethics, Ernest Hemingway, modern art, Vietnam, Libertarians, Jane Fonda, religious conservatives, Hollywood Communists ...
It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand

It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand

Jerome Tuccille

This edition of It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand contains much of the text that appeared in the original edition-revised and edited to conform to modern style-plus new chapters dealing with events that took place after the book was first ...
Network Technologies for Networked Terrorists: Assessing the ...

Network Technologies for Networked Terrorists: Assessing the ...

Bruce W. Don

As of January 8, 2007: http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1782/ Cragin, Kim, and Scott Gerwehr, Dissuading Terror: Strategic Influence and the Struggle Against Terrorism, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, MG-184- RC, ...
Influence Warfare: How Terrorists and Governments Fight to ...

Influence Warfare: How Terrorists and Governments Fight to ...

James J. F. Forest

Kim Cragin and Scott Gerwehr, Dissuading Terror: Strategic Influence and the Struggle Against Terrorism (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2005), http:// www.rand.org/pubs/ monographs/MG184/index.html. 3. Brad M. Ward, Strategic ...
The New Ayn Rand Companion

The New Ayn Rand Companion

Mimi Reisel Gladstein

Ed. Lou Torres and Michelle Kamhi. Bernstein, Andrew. "The Mind as Hero in Atlas Shrugged." New Milford, CT: Second Renaissance Books, 1994. 2 audiocassettes. Branden, Barbara. "Ayn Rand: The Charisma of Reason." Speech at Future ...

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