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MattTheSkywalker said:
Matt, you have made this assertion before, and while I have not studied her life in depth, I don't believe your account is correct.
She did die alone, because her husband of many years died before her. She did have known affairs, but her and her husband remained married until his death.
She died on a train, after giving a speech to business men in New Orleans. She loved trains, because she felt that they were the expression of man's greatness, a manifestation of what the human mind could accomplish.
She was very dogmatic and uncompromising and did lose many collegues, such as Murray Rothbard, who, if I remember correctly, was married to a devout Christian woman, whom Rand did not care for.
As for her rejecting her beliefs, I don't know where you heard this from. I cannot find anything that shows a rejection of her ideas. Rand was an ideologue. Part of her ideology was that man is not omniscient, and therefore, his ideas can be wrong, but the search for "truths" must continue. She was vehemently opposed to the anti-rationalist philosophies which began to take precedence which argued that man cannot ever know "truth" and that reality is personal.
While her literary works are excellent, her non-fiction works are more important, since they provide the framework from which one can better understand the ideas presented in her works of fiction. Her "Introduction to Objectivist Epistomology" explains her philosophy of "objectivism" and "ethical egoism", which are the foundations of her fictional works.
