There are no “the Brandons” but there were the Brandens, both of whom were close friends of mine. I gave the eulogy at Barbara’s memorial. Nathaniel had two gatherings one private one for about a dozen people, which I attended and one public one which I also attended. I was also at Rand’s wake at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral home.

I read all three biographies in manuscript form before they were published and had a luncheon with Nathaniel, Barbara, Anne Heller and Jennifer Burns—the only time they were all together.

It is clear you don’t really comprehend what Rand was saying and the most absurd point is “everyone who was rich deserved to be rich,” which is nonsense. Atlas Shrugged presented villains all of whom were rich. While Dagny Taggart is one of Rand’s heros, her equally wealth brother is a villain; while Roark is a hero the owner of another steel mill is portrayed as an villain. For each character of one kind she had an opposite character who was similar but of the opposite morality. She portrayed heroes who were poor and rich, villains who were poor and rich. She absolutely rejected the idea that anyone who is rich deserved to be, and she supported property rights from the very start, not only after she got rich.

But that’s enough of this debate.