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* Junto meeting August 2
* Upcoming Junto speakers through November
* NEW Get Gene Epstein's PowerPoint of his June Junto talk
* NEW Objectivist to lead Cato Institute, libertarian think tank
* NEW Libertarianism, Anarchism, Austrian Economics
* NEW Ten must-read books on free market economics
* NEW Ten books on capitalism for beginners
* NEW NY Times Magazine writes of govt licensing of jobs
* NEW "Atlas Shrugged" part 2 filming complete
* NEW Horatio Alger's book contains luck & conscientiousness
* NEW Objective Standard fundraising event, Sun., July 29
* NEW Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Annual Meeting
* NEW New York City Ayn Rand Meetup, Sunday, Aug. 5
* NEW "Atlas Shrugged" Reading Group, by chapters, Aug. 19
* NEW To Obama "Atlas" is how-to manual not cautionary tale
* NEW Math museum coming in Dec. 15, 26 St., off 5th Ave.
* NEW Doug Casey on "Atlas Shrugged" film, part 1 & book
* NEW Molly Sechrest on NY Times "Share the Wealth"
* Ayn Rand walking tours, 2012
* NYCjunto-discuss list
* About this newsletter
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Junto is a group that shares information
and discusses current issues...
plus presents speakers to talk with us:
Gary Jason
Classical Liberal Ethics and Immigration
Thursday, August 2
Admission Free -- No reservation necessary
* We'll socialize from 7:00pm.
NOTE, many changes here:
* People who want to make an announcement or introduce
themselves should sign up on the sheet at the entrance table.
* At 7:30pm the moderator, Gene Epstein, will call on people
who signed up, in order. Each person will have up to
4 minutes to make their announcement, including taking
comments and questions about it from the audience.
* The speaker will begin promptly at 8:00pm. The talk will be
about 45 minutes, uninterrupted.
People in the audience should take notes for questions and
discussion afterward.
* At about 8:45pm the questions and discussions will begin.
Anyone in the audience can have 4 minutes for a discussion
or rebuttal of the speaker's points.
* The meeting will continue to about 10:00pm.
General Society Library,
20 West 44 St., between 5th and 6th Aves., NYC
near the Grand Central Terminal
Subway: 4, 5, 6, S to Grand Central -- 42nd St.
or
B, D, F, 7 to 42nd Street -- Sixth Ave. at Bryant Park
or
A, C, E, N, Q, R, S, 1, 2, 3 to Times Square -- 42nd St.
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M42, M98, M101, M102, M104, Q32
Train: MTA Metro-North Railroad to Grand Central
Car: Some private parking facilities in the area. Parking on
side streets is metered, limited to specific days and times.
Please note:
* Discussions are intense, but polite. Participation by all
attendees is highly encouraged.
* Junto meets on the first Thursday of every month.
Gary Jason's been a philosophy instructor for over thirty years.
He teaches philosophy at California State U., Fullerton.
His newest book, "Dangerous Thoughts: Selected Writings
on Contemporary Issues"" is available at Amazon. He's the
author of several books, including "Critical Thinking:
Developing and Effective Worldview", "Introduction
to Logic" and "The Logic of Discovery".
He's a senior editor of online magazine Liberty, formerly
the paper magazine Liberty:
LibertyUnbound.com
He's published about 500 academic and trade articles, book
reviews, movie reviews, opinion editorials and other short
opinion pieces. He has a bachelors both of physics and of
philosophy, UCLA; M.A. and Ph.D. philosophy with emphasis
in the history and philosophy of science, UCLA; M.S.
computer science, Kansas State U.
He was born in Pittsburgh, grew up in Los Angeles, lives
in San Clemente, CA.
Read more about him at:
ProfGaryJason.com
Read his articles...
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trade: tiny.cc/tradeGJ
Liberty Magazine: tiny.cc/libertyGJ
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Come to Junto, meet these upcoming speakers:
* September 1, Richard Kostelanetz is a writer and artist. He
often attends Junto. He's been a contributing/advisory editor
of many arts journals, the author of many books, among them
"Political Essays" and "More On Innovative Music(ian)s"
Visit his site:
tiny.cc/rKosti
* October 4, Gary Hoover, read his bio:
tiny.cc/HooverBio
* Nov. 1, Greg Rehmke, program director Economic Thinking,
programs for high school, homeschool and college. Visit his site:
tiny.cc/gRehmke
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Get Gene Epstein's PowerPoint of his June Junto talk
"Bubble Trouble: Myths and Realities of the Failure
of CRapitalism that Caused the Great Recession" This
PowerPoint will be emailed to if you ask for it at:
gene.epstein(at)gmail.com
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Objectivist/banker to lead Cato Institute, libertarian think tank
John Allison, on the board of the Ayn Rand Institute, will
replace Ed Crane as Cato's CEO this October. Cato is in D.C.,
yearly commissions and publishes more than a dozen books,
and scores of studies, on policy issues including taxing,
spending, education, free speech, Social Security, regulation,
federalism, individual rights, rule of law, globalization,
national security and the environment.
Crane, who co-founded Cato in 1974, calls Allison
"a superstar businessman, a superstar libertarian....he is
admired and respected, even revered..."
Allison is a frequent lecturer on capitalism and business
nationwide. During his 20 year tenure as chairman and CEO
of BB&T he grew it from a local bank with $4.5 billion in
assets to a regional bank with $152 billion in assets.
Allison used his knowledge of Ayn Rand's philosophy to
create the BB&T mission statement and its corporate culture
based on the Objectivist values and virtues.
He said, "Cato is a great asset for the libertarian free society
movement. Cato has made some very important contributions.
It can be even more impactful in providing the intellectual
ammunition to move our society back to the principles that
made America great in the first place....
" 'Atlas Shrugged' is my favorite work. BB&T has sponsored
68 programs on the moral foundations of capitalism where
'Atlas Shrugged' is one of, although not the only, of the
prescribed readings. 25,000 students go through the program
annually. Thousands describe the program as life changing and
almost all of them attribute the transformation of their
worldview to 'Atlas Shrugged'.
"They do not all agree with Rand's philosophy but they
appreciate the sense of life, of the power of purpose, of reason,
and they have never in their whole educational career heard
this point of view."
The above Allison quotes are from his interview at Forbes:
tiny.cc/AllisonForbes
Below is from:
tiny.cc/AllisonWinstonS
When John Allison retired as chairman, CEO of BB&T Corp.
in 2009, he said he wasn't through with his business career.
Even as Allison, 63, became a distinguished professor of
practice at the Wake Forest U. Schools of Business in fall 2009,
his passion remained focused on "defending individual rights
and free markets."
Allison said he believes he was chosen by Cato because of
his experience in running a large and successful corporation
with free-market ideals as part of its mission.
"Libertarianism is a bigger umbrella than Objectivism,"
Allison said. "That doesn't mean everyone has to share my
beliefs, although the vast majority of libertarians have been
influenced by Rand.
"Some libertarians agree with all her points, while some
disagree with some of them."
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Richard Ebeling on Libertarianism, Anarchism
and the Truth of Austrian Economics
The Daily Bell interview July 8, 2012 by Anthony Wile
Here are a few highlights which give you a sense of how
much can be learned from this interview.
Bio: [Ebeling was] president of the Foundation for Economic
Education (FEE) from 2003 to 2008 and was the Ludwig von
Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College, in Michigan
(1988-2003). Dr. Ebeling is the author of "Political Economy,
Public Policy, and Monetary Economics: Ludwig von Mises
and the Austrian Tradition" (2010), "Austrian Economics and
the Political Economy of Freedom" (2003) and is also the
editor of the "Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises", based
on the "lost papers" of Ludwig von Mises, which he recovered
from a formerly secret KGB archive in Moscow, Russia.
[In "Political Economy"] I present a detailed analysis and
comparison, for instance, of the Austrian and Keynesian
conceptions of money, business cycles and the causes and
cures for the Great Depression of the 1930s. I explain the
similarities and differences between Mises and Joseph
Schumpeter on money and economic fluctuations, as well
as a contrast between the Austrians and the Swedish or
Stockholm School of Economics....
[Regarding anarcho-capitalists} I think all classical
liberals and libertarians should keep in mind that there are very
few of "us" and a whole lot of collectivists who are controlling
the political, economic and social affairs of our societies.
We should focus on what we all agree upon: the freedom
and dignity of the individual human being; and the attempt
whenever and wherever on our part to reduce, repeal and
abolish all forms of regulation, control, restriction, prohibition
on the peaceful and honest affairs of our fellow men....
...Austrians argue that economics is fundamentally a science
and study of "human action." It attempts to trace out the logic
and implications of man's intentional conduct in selecting
among ends desired and applying perceived means to try to
attain them. Austrians emphasize that all human action and the
social and market interactions among men occur in a setting of
imperfect knowledge, inescapable degrees of uncertainty and
always through the passage of time.
They try to explain the market processes by which men
discover mutual gains from trade. They emphasize that the
networks of social institutions in which and through which
men discover ways to coordinate their interdependent actions
in complex systems of division of labor are not the creations of
government edict or command; but are most often among those
unintended consequences of multitudes of self-interested
individual actions and interactions.
Read all of this interview at:
tiny.cc/EblingEcon
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Ten must-read books on free market economics
From Laissez Faire: The Uncompromised Case for Capitalism
Don Watkins of the Ayn Rand Institute, recommends:
* Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
You can read the entire book free: tiny.cc/OneLesson
* The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas
of the Great Thinkers by Mark Skousen
* Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
by Ludwig von Mises.
* Prosperity Through Freedom by Lawrence Fertig
* Selected Essays in Political Economy by Frédéric Bastiat.
* The Economic Way of Thinking by Paul Heyne
* Economics for Real People by Gene Callahan.
* Time and Money by Roger W. Garrison.
* Capitalism by George Reisman He spoke at Junto when this
book came out in 1996. Free download PDF of whole book:
tiny.cc/CapitalReisman
* Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
Read more about each of these books:
tiny.cc/Must-ReadEconomics
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Ten books on capitalism for beginners
From Laissez Faire: The Uncompromised Case for Capitalism
Don Watkins of the Ayn Rand Institute, recommends:
* Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
* Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand.
* Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt.
You can read the entire book free: tiny.cc/OneLesson
* Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.
* Capitalism and the Historians by F.A. Hayek (ed.)
* The Birth of Plenty by William J. Bernstein
* Interventionism by Ludwig von Mises.
* The Clash of Economic Ideas by Lawrence H. White
* The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton Folsom.
* How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
by Peter D. Schiff and Andrew J. Schiff.
Read more about each of these books:
tiny.cc/capitalismBeginner
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NY Times Sunday Magazine writes about govt licensing of jobs
This article would almost fit in a libertarian publication, it's
surprising here. It's about the way governments use regulations
to prevent people from working or selling products.
Part of it features the Institute of Justice, the libertarian
legal group which defends people being prevented from using
their rights by governments. Read it here:
tiny.cc/hairBraid
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"Atlas Shrugged" part 2 filming complete
Duncan Scott, producer of The Objectivist History Project,
is a co-writer of the "Atlas" part 2 film. He was the speaker
at two of the Junto Ayn Rand birthday celebrations
Here's a photo taken during the filming of part 2. It's of
Nathaniel Branden to whom "Atlas Shrugged" was originally
co-dedicated, David Kelley of The Atlas Society, Duncan Scott
and John Aglialoro the film's co-producer:
tiny.cc/Atlas2filming
The score is being written Cris Bacon, who did the score for
the Spielberg TV series "Smash".
"Atlas" part 2 will be in theaters nationwide on Friday,
Oct. 12, 2012. For up to date information:
tiny.cc/Atlas2
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Horatio Alger's book contains luck and conscientiousness
Last year a Junto speaker sold "Ragged Dick" by Horatio
Alger and encouraged people to read it. Liberty magazine had
published an article saying the Alger books were about luck,
not personal achievements.
I recently read the book and although it does have elements
of luck, the core of the book is the 14 year old hero's
conscientiousness. He's a shoe shine boy who lives on the
street. He appreciates the advice given to him by rich people.
Through them he learns to value planning ahead, saving
money and learning to read and write. He follows their advice
in clever and original ways. As a result of these things and
some luck, he takes himself from street urchin to middle class.
This book was written in 1867, as a 12 part serial for a
magazine for young boys on American farms and small towns.
Also, the book is filled with information about Manhattan,
descriptions of streets, buildings and the beginning of the
construction of Central Park. Plus you always know where
you are in the city, exactly which cross street and avenue.
Another treat is learning of our hero's street smarts. He
teaches people who are new to the city about street cons and
cons in shops as they meet these villains.
You can read all of this book at:
tiny.cc/RaggedAlger
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The Objective Standard fundraising event, Sun., July 29
Arrive 12:45pm, starts 1:00pm to 6:00pm, with coffee break
The Estonian House, 234 E. 34th St. west of 2nd Ave., NYC
New York Objectivist Society is supporting the quarterly
magazine The Objective Standard. It features three speakers:
* Andrew Bernstein will present "The Tragedy of Theology:
How Religion Caused and Exacerbated the Dark Ages." It
was published in The Objective Standard as a response to
Rodney Stark's book, "The Victory of Reason."
The book claimed that the medieval Catholic Church was
responsible for Western commitment to reason, science and
freedom. Andrew shows that Stark's claim is both historically
false and philosophically impossible.
The truth is that the medieval Church, as a preeminent
example of an institution subordinating reason -- man's survival
instrument -- to faith, was the main reason that the age was dark
and that many men failed to survive it. Stark's 2005 book was
so well received in the intellectual culture -- e.g, published by
Random House, glowingly reviewed by The NY Times, etc. --
makes a refutation of his thesis all the more urgent.
Andrew has a Ph.D. philosophy CUNY, has taught philosophy
at SUNY Purchase and Marymount College. His books are:
"The Capitalist Manifesto," "Objectivism in One Lesson,"
"Capitalism Unbound" and "Capitalist Solutions." He's
a regular columnist at Forbes.com.
* Richard Salsman asks and answers "Can the World Return
to the Gold Standard? If So, How?"
For the past 40 years the world's paper monies have had no
relation to gold (real money) -- unlike the prior forty centuries.
As a result, the size and scope of government has expanded
enormously, money-banking-debt crises have proliferated, the
cost of living has sky-rocketed, and economies have stagnated.
Richard explains why 60 nations converged on the gold
standard in the decades before WWI, how that system
performed and its moral-political prerequisites.
He discusses how and why this system was lost entirely by
1971, and concludes with answers to these questions: Can we
ever return to the gold standard? If so, how could it be done?
Must we also "end the Fed?" If so, how?
Richard is pres. of InterMarket Forecasting, contributing
editor of The Objective Standard and author of The Capitalist
column at Forbes.com.
* Craig Biddle will talk about "Living Purposefully".
Objectivism holds that one's success in life depends on one's
choosing and achieving three cardinal values: reason, purpose,
and self-esteem. While much has been said about reason and
self-esteem, relatively little has been said about purpose.
What exactly is this value? How does one embrace it?
What does it mean to live purposefully?
Craig is founder/editor of The Objective Standard and author
of "Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts
that Support It."
You'll meet all three lecturers at the general panel Q&A.
$30 per person, cash at door.
Everyone is invited to join the speakers and NYOS
co-founders Armen and Arshak Benlian to a local restaurant
for dinner and stimulating discussion. Learn more at:
tiny.cc/ObjStandard
Sign up at:
info(at)NewYorkObjectivistSociety.org
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Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Annual Meeting
Art Robinson, Junto speaker, is involved with this event.
July 27 tour of Brookhaven National Lab. is optional.
Seventeen speakers, including Robinson, July 28 and July 29
Long Island Marriott, Uniondale, NY. Learn about it here:
DDPonLine.org
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New York City Ayn Rand Meetup, Aug. 5
Come join us on Sunday, 3:00pm.
Normally this is on the last Sunday of the month, but it was
changed this month. There'll still be an Aug. 26 meeting.
As always, we'll talk about Ayn Rand, her works, Objectivist
life, challenges, options, associations and knowledge.
Give and take, open to all, no charge, no reservations.
It's at The Midtown Restaurant, 155 East 55 St., between
3rd and Lexington Avenues, in Manhattan, free.
Benny Pollack, Ayn Rand Meetup organizer says:"Join our
group of regular Objectivists for a lively discussion on topics
related to Ayn Rand and Objectivist philosophy in general.
"Please join us. If you are already versed in the topic, want
to learn or just want to spend an intellectually stimulating
afternoon, please come. I hope to see you all there."
The Ayn Rand Meetup is usually on the last Sunday of each
month but this July meeting was changed to the first week in
Aug so it wouldn't conflict with The Objective Standard
fundraising event.
Learn more about it at:
AynRand.meetup.com/8
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"Atlas Shrugged" Reading Group, a chapter a month, Aug. 19
New York Objectivist Society, third Sun. every month,
5:00pm to 7:00pm, Bryant Park, behind the library between
42 St. and 40 St. The group will meet by the statue of Bryant
on the east end of the park. In bad weather meet in the Sony
Atrium, Madison Ave. between 55th and 56th Streets.
The discussion will be of Part 2, Chapter 6, "Miracle Metal."
There's a $5 fee which goes to Ayn Rand Institute's project
which gives free books by Ayn Rand to schools.
This Reading Group has only one rule -- you can't integrate
or refer to material in the text which hasn't been covered yet.
Read about it here:
tiny.cc/AtlasRead
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To Obama "Atlas" is a how-to manual not a cautionary tale
Obama recently said, "If you've got a business -- you didn't
build that. Somebody else made that happen."
Instapundit posted this conversation from "Atlas Shrugged":
"He didn't invent iron ore and blast furnaces, did he?"
"Who?”
"Rearden. He didn't invent smelting and chemistry and air
compression. He couldn't have invented his Metal but for
thousands and thousands of other people. His Metal! Why
does he think it's his? Why does he think it's his invention?
Everybody uses the work of everybody else. Nobody ever
invents anything."
She said, puzzled, "But the iron ore and all those other
things were there all the time. Why didn't anybody else make
that Metal, but Mr. Rearden did?"
Instapundit [Glenn Reynolds] says: "Ouch."
This is from:
tiny.cc/AtlasHowTo
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Math museum coming Dec. 15, at 26 St., off 5th Ave.
Glen Whitney told Junto about his plans a few years ago.
He's raised nearly the $24 million necessary for the Museum
of Mathematics, or MoMath, at 11 E. 26 St.
It will show children and adults that math is fun, beautiful
and will help people get "really good jobs". It will open with
35 exhibits, including Feedback Fractals. About a dozen more
exhibits to come later. Learn more at:
MoMath.org
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Doug Casey on "Atlas Shrugged" film, part 1 and the book
His Casey Research helps self-directed investors earn returns
through innovative investment research designed to take
advantage of market dislocations.
His meetings are one of the inspirations for Junto.
This is from an interview on his site:
tiny.cc/CaseyAtlas
As in all good science fiction, Rand successfully anticipated
a lot of things. Even though she wrote the book back in the
1950s, she posited the existence of biometric security devices,
the economic extraction of shale oil, new high-strength metal
alloys and a sonic weapon developed by the government to
subdue the population.
She was especially prescient with the socioeconomic
aspects of the dystopian future she painted. Actually, she was
far too conservative about how powerful the U.S. government
would become. On the macro level, she hit the nail on the head,
writing that the final economic collapse would start in the more
collectivized European countries before hitting the U.S. On the
micro level she was spot on, writing about back-room deals
between corrupt corporate CEOs and their cronies in
Washington; she anticipated Goldman Sachs conniving with
Nancy Pelosi. And on the individual level, I can't count the
thousands of times I've seen people act in ways Rand depicted
in her novel. Heroic people struggling to innovate and create
wealth; the intellectually dishonest refusing to question their
superstitions; hypocrites who go through mental gymnastics
to make excuses for themselves; and just plain dirtballs acting
the way they always do.
But in some ways, she underestimated how far beyond bad,
how totally ludicrous, things would get. In today's U.S.,
Dagny would never get to tear out all that old rail track and
put in some new, controversial metal. That was a salable
concept back in the 1950s, but today, OSHA, EPA, and
a host of federal, state and local authorities would kill
the idea before it got off the drawing board....
...I finally did watch [the "Atlas Shrugged" film] on DVD.
I'm not surprised it didn't do well in the box office, given that
the ideals in the story are the opposites of what most people
are taught is right and good. But I liked it. It was obviously a
somewhat low-budget film, but I thought it was well acted and
well shot. Best of all, it stuck pretty close to the story line in
the book, and was true to its intellectual themes....
...And, after 50-some years, it needed making.
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Molly Sechrest on NY Times opinion piece "Share the Wealth"
Molly often attended Junto before moving to Texas. Read
her comment, about Social Security and Medicare being transfers
of wealth from the young to the old:
tiny.cc/MollyWealth
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Ayn Rand walking tours, 2012
Fred Cookinham has five different Ayn Rand walking tours:
tiny.cc/TourRand
Some dates are scheduled in advance but all are available
as private tours.
Ayn Rand's Park Avenue, EVERY Wed., plus Nov. & private tours
Where Rand lived and held her salons.
Scenes from "Atlas Shrugged."
Where Rand learned about architecture from Ely Jacques
Kahn, in his own masterpiece Art Deco building.
Meet on NE corner on east 42nd St. at Vanderbilt Ave.
Grand Central Terminal's SW entrance.
Subway stops: Grand Central
1-1/2 hour tour
EVERY Wednesday through September 26 at 6:15pm
November 4, Sunday at 11:00am
November 24, Saturday at 11:00am
Tour also available on request.
Skyscrapers of "The Fountainhead" private tours only
The changing styles in architecture -- from Beaux Arts to
Art Deco to International Style -- that form the background
to the story of Roark's struggle.
Was Roark Wright? -- the real-life models for Rand's
characters.
Meet at Number 1 Broadway, at Battery Place.
Subway stops: Bowling Green
2-1/2 hour tour, starts at 11:00am
Tour also available on request.
"Atlas Shrugged" starting in Nov. & private tours
See places Rand researched and fictionalized in her novel,
around and in Grand Central Terminal.
Meet on the SE corner of Park Ave. at E. 50th St.
Outside the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel.
Subway stops: Number 6 to E. 51st St. or Grand Central.
1-1/2 hour tour, starts at 11:00am
November 17, Saturday
November 18, Sunday
Tour also available on request.
Ayn Rand Fifth Avenue, private tours only
Art and architecture in the glamour shopping district of the
Twentieth Century world. Central Park South, Rockefeller
Center, the Stork Club, and where Random House published
"Atlas Shrugged."
Where Rand bought her paintings, clothes, and fancy
dinners.
Meet at the Columbus statue in Columbus Circle.
Subway stop: Columbus Circle.
2-1/2 hour tour, starts at 11:00am
Tour available on request only.
Ayn Rand on Broadway, private tours only
Skyscrapers, newspapers, Broadway and books.
DeMille, Hellman, and where Alan Greenspan played sax.
Where "The Night of January 16th," "The Unconquered,"
and "Think Twice" were produced.
Isabel Paterson at the Herald Tribune. Patricia Neal, the
Shuberts, the Gershwins, and of course more Art Deco.
Meet on the NE corner of Broadway and W. 49th St.
2-1/2 hour tour, starts at 11:00am
Tour available on request only.
All scheduled tours are $20, $15 for those over 65, except
where noted. Private tours are available for $30 a person.
To arrange for your private tour or for more information,
call Fred at home: 718-397-9019 or on his cell: 917-607-9019
or email him: fcookinham [at] juno.com
"Fred is a kind of poet and street professor...." Anne Heller,
"New York Observer" 2/9/04, author of "Ayn Rand and the
World She Made."
"Fred's a valuable asset in NYC. I encourage those who live
here or who visit, to take advantage of his research, knowledge
and ability to communicate. His perspectives on American
history, libertarianism, and Objectivism as well as his
appreciation of the arts integrate many interesting facts
and influences on our culture." Lee Clifford, Junto attendee
Fred Cookinham's walking tours keep getting better,
because he never stops researching.
He's often at Junto and Ayn Rand Meetups. At least once
a year he does a reading from Rand at Junto.
Highlights of previous years * Fred gave a special
"Ayn Rand and Free Market Tour" for Mont Pelerin Society.
* "Ayn Rand's Park Ave" on BBC's Radio 4 "The Right Stuff".
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