Journals of Ayn Rand.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | v29 |
| Issue | n9 |
| Published | 1998-02-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | David Harriman |
| Reviewee | n/a | Walter Olson |
| Reviewee | n/a | Ayn Rand |
Deep into the writing of The Fountainhead, with a third of the manuscript already finished, novelist Ayn Rand had the book's exciting climax all worked out. It was to consist of a public crime followed by a dramatic trial and vindication: slinky heroine/architecture critic Dominique Francon would gun down leftist social commentator Ellsworth Toohey, having finally figured out what a philosophical bad guy he truly was. Hero/master builder Howard Roark would then step forward and take the murder rap for her, and later would go free after a campaign organized by his friends.
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