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Title: Autograph Manuscript Signed for The Ayn Rand Column Author: Rand, Ayn Place: No place Publisher: Date: June 26, 1962 Description: Nine and one-half page Autograph Manuscript, signed in the heading, on versos only of ten sheets. 11x8½", housed in a custom morocco-backed case, spine lettered in gilt. Accompanied by a later typescript copy. A draft of the Ayn Rand Column for the July 8 issue of the Los Angeles Times, with extensive corrections and revisions in ink and red pencil. Rand's newspaper column was an ambitious attempt to address topical issues from the Objectivist perspective. The column ran for 26 insertions from June through December, 1962. The articles examined various subjects from governmental issues, to Mickey Spillane to vandalism. The present draft is for the column titled "The New Enemies of 'The Untouchables'". The draft begins: "When a culture is dominated by an irrational philosophy, a major symptom of its decadence is the inversion of all values. This can always be seen clearly in the field of art, the best barometer of a culture. In today's flood of criticism and abuse, unleashed against the television industry, it is the best program that has been singled our for the most persistent denunciation. That program is 'The Untouchables.'" Provenance: From the collection of Dr. Robert H. Ruby, purchased from Kenneth W. Rendell, Inc. in 2002. Sold to benefit Whitworth University. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine. Item number: 222385