Between 1961, when she gave her first talk at the Ford Hall Forum in
Boston, and 1981, when she gave the last talk of her life in New
Orleans, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as
education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marylin Monroe. In "The
Voice of Reason," these pieces, written in the last decades of Rand's
life are gathered in book form for the first time. With them are five
essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and literary
executor. The work concludes with Peikoff's eipolgue, "My Thirty Years
With Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir, " which answers the question
"What was Ayn Rand really like?" Important reading for all thinking
individuals, Rand's later writings reflect a life lived on principle, a
probing mind, and a passionate intensity. This collection communicates
not only Rand's singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural
and political analysis to which it gives rise.