The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought (The Ayn Rand Library, Vol V)
by Ayn Rand
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Author: Ayn RandEditor: Leonard Peikoff
Introduction: Leonard Peikoff
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1990-06-30
ISBN: 0452010462
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Plume
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Book Review: Classic Rand despite contributions of Peikoff and Schwartz
Summary: 3 Stars
This collection of Ayn Rand's essays includes some hard-to-find classics ("Global Balkanization," "The Sanction of the Victims," and "Apollo 11," for example) and a couple of duds (notably "About a Woman President"). The biggest duds, however, are the additional essays provided by Leonard Peikoff and Peter Schwartz, who apparently couldn't leave well enough alone. Peikoff's essays aren't terrible, but his placing them next to Rand's simply makes obvious what a pretentious and derivative thinker he really is. And Schwartz's ill-considered ravings against "Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty" (particularly his attacks on the late great Murray Rothbard, compared to whom Schwartz is a gnat), far from meriting description as the "voice of reason," do not deserve to be published here or anywhere else. Buy this book for Rand's essays, but read around the extras thrown in by a couple of mediocre hangers-on.
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