An Excerpt From Ayn Rand’s Life: Highlights and Sidelights

by Harry Binswanger (Recorded 1993)

Ayn Rand embodied three extraordinary qualities: philosophic genius, heroic rationality and passionate man-worship. The result was the outstanding figure of the modern era—perhaps, of any era.

This lecture excerpt portrays the essence of a world-historical figure who lived life with the passionate intensity and full consciousness of her greatest fictional heroes.