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The Louie b. Free Show for November 11, 2009

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Urge Schwebel's Not to Break Bread With Ringling

 

 

Spring Reins of Hope

 Find a Program in your Area

 

Workplace BPA Exposure Increases Risk Of Male Sexual Dysfunction

Are Earth's Oceans Made Of Extraterrestrial Material?

What is Equine Assisted Learning (EAL)?

 

 

What is Equine Assisted Psychotherapy?

Getting to the Horse of the Matter

 

Wireless Phones Can Affect The Brain, Swedish Study Suggests

SPRING REINS of HOPE, Getting to the Horse of the Matter-CHRISTIANA CAPRA+DR MARIA KARAVIDAS

 

New warning on 'perfect vaginas'

Poor nutrition 'stunting growth'

Launching my dream biz - Spring Reins of Hope

 

Train the Mind to Run Right Through Winter

 

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

 An idealistic architect battles corrupt business interests and his love for a married woman.

About Jennifer Burns

 

It was perhaps inevitable I would become an academic: by age 10 I had already produced my first effort, “The Zebra,” complete with a footnote to my forthcoming work, “The Horse.” By high school history had emerged as my favorite subject, with English a close second.

At Harvard College, I majored in history, with a focus on 19th century religious history.  I was mentored by a remarkable series of history professors, including the late William Gienapp, the intellectual historian James Hankins, and my thesis advisor Brett Flehinger. My senior thesis bore the mark of another mentor, John Stilgoe, an historian who taught in the Visual and Environmental Studies program.  I analyzed late 19th century theological disputes between Catholics and Protestants as they played out in the architecture of Boston’s famous Church of the Advent.  After two years working as a researcher at the Harvard Business School, I applied to graduate programs in history.

Ayn Rand was already on my mind when I arrived at the University of California, Berkeley.  Part of it was my dormant interest in literature, roused now by a long dead novelist still read by thousands.  Everywhere I went, it seemed, I saw someone reading one of her books.  But unlike, say, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wharton, or any other American novelist who had stood the test of time, there wasn’t an established “line” on Rand within the academic world.  She claimed to have made great innovations in philosophy, literature, and ethics.  Was that true?  Where did she fit in American history?  Surely she was significant, but just how?

By my second year in graduate school I had abandoned religious history and settled on Rand as a topic, under the direction of intellectual historian David Hollinger, with further guidance from historian Kerwin Klein and political scientist Mark Bevir.  As I describe in my book and on my blog, I was able to gain access to the newly opened Ayn Rand Archives, and became the first historian to work in her private papers and read her unedited letters and diaries.  My work on Rand has been supported by the UC Berkeley History Department, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, and the University of Virginia.

All told, I spent eight years working on Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right. During that time I received my Ph.D. in history from U.C. Berkeley, met and married my husband, and was hired as an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia.

 

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

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Urge Schwebel's Not to Break Bread With Ringling

 

Food security: Feeling insecure?

A Dream Interpretation: Tuneups for the Brain

War veterans make Iraq their businessJay Garner, a retired general who was, in effect, the American governor of Iraq immediately after the war, was on the board of directors of Vast Exploration, a Canadian company, when it bought a 37 per cent stake in the Qara Dagh oil block in Kurdistan two years ago. He is now an adviser to Vast.

Phys Ed: The Best Exercises for Healthy Bones

 

 

Harry Forster Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer and songwriter known for his folk rock songs "Taxi," "W*O*L*D," and the number-one hit "Cat's in the Cradle" as well as his masterful folk musical based on the biblical book of John, "Cotton Patch Gospel." Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger, with his work being widely recognized as a key player in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger in 1977.[1] In 1987, Chapin was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his humanitarian work

 

 

Imam with ties to Fort Hood suspect had been arrested in Yemen

 

 

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