[AnAmericanMother]

I think Wallace controlled it better. He was also a child of his time AND treating a delicate religious topic (the preachers could kill your book in those days!) I still don't know what Rand's excuse was.

< looking carefully around and donning safety helmet >

[left that other site]

The first time I read “Atlas Shrugged”, I skimmed over the 100 page radio speech.

I have since read it all, but that part was very repetitious, and interrupted both the action and character development.

In an interview that Ayn Rand did on TV (I think with Dick Cavett), she very frankly stated that the entire book was just a vehicle for expressing her Philosophy of Objectivism.