This brilliantly conceived and organized book is based on a lecture
course given by Dr. Leonard Peikoff in 1976, entitled "The Philosophy of
Objectivism." The lectures were attended by Ayn Rand, who helped prepare
them and also joined Peikoff in answering questions. Ayn Rand said of
these lectures: "Until or unless I write a comprehensive treatise on my
philosophy, Dr. Peikoff's course is the only authorized presentation of
the entire theoretical structure of Objectivism - that is, the only one
that I know of my own knowledge to be fully accurate."