Wilder’s books were written in collaboration with her only child, Rose Wilder Lane, a best-selling author in her own right. (Ryan now says that his favorite writer is Thomas Aquinas, the thirteenth-century Catholic saint.)Īt first glance, Laura Ingalls Wilder, the daughter of pioneers whose hardscrabble life as a farmer redefines frugality, and Ayn Rand, the flamboyant cosmopolite and champion of privilege who lived in a ménage à quatre in New York City, hobnobbing with the élite, do not have much in common beyond, perhaps, the fervor that their work inspires.
A Soviet-born Jewish intellectual (née Rosenbaum), who emigrated to America in the nineteen-twenties and worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter before turning to fiction, Rand was a pro-choice, antiwar atheist and Benzedrine user with a scandalous domestic life, vehemently opposed to drug laws, sodomy laws, and any other state interference in the lifestyle choices of citizens. In the last few days, however, Ryan has had to shrug Rand off-she’s his Jeremiah Wright. Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged” was so influential to Ryan’s career, and to his view of ethics and society, he said some years ago, that he gave it to his staffers as a Christmas present. The youthful reading habits of our new Republican Vice-Presidential candidate have also been fodder for the news cycle.
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