Biographers Summit

[9thdoctor]

Now this is interesting. Particularly the mix of speakers. I haven’t seen it yet, not till tomorrow. There’s 11 parts, I’m not going to embed them all (I’m a lazybones, as Phil likes to say).

[Greybird]

Shoshana Milgram appearing with Anne Heller AND Mimi Gladstein on the same program? I'm surprised that the resulting shock didn't dissolve the space-time continuum!

Unless Milgram has started distancing herself from the Orthodoxy. She always struck me as too sane to not do so.

Apparently this event was "An Evening with Ayn Rand" at the National Arts Club in New York City, 26 May 2010.

[Greybird]

Here are links to all eleven parts on YouTube. Each video is beteeen six and nine minutes long and has two explanatory introduction frames.

1: Introduction by Alexandra York

2: Shoshana Milgram

3: Anne Heller

4: Mimi Riesel Gladstein

5: Alexandra York

6: How the authors became interested in Rand

7: Heller explains a chapter's choice of subject; also Gladstein

8: Milgram talks of Rand's ideas on childhood

9: All authors on why so many people love Rand; Gladstein on politics

10: All authors on Rand's primary motivations and aims

11: What the authors learned during research about Rand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpRco-TlCk0

Edited July 4, 2010 by Greybird

[anonrobt]

Very interesting, to say the least...

[Philip Coates]

Steve,

I've been around a while and the first four sections (posted by ND) bored me. Didn't learn anything new; maybe good for Rand virgins?

Any fresh insights or brilliant rhetoric in the remaining sections?

[9thdoctor]

Any fresh insights or brilliant rhetoric in the remaining sections?

The last segment (11) had a cute unfamiliar anecdote from Knapp. It’s towards the beginning.

I hate the long intros to each segment. Zap ahead 40 seconds to skip them.

The audience Q&A isn’t included, maybe it got more interesting later.