NYC Junto Newsletter, August 2012 – Ayn Rand and Paul Ryan and lots more

by Iris Bell on August 18, 2012

UPDATE: Second speaker added to next Junto meeting

Contents
* NEW Junto meeting September 6, TWO SPEAKERS
* Upcoming Junto speakers through November
* NEW Feel better about the world, listen to Yaron Brook 
* NEW The man who allowed Hong Kong to blossom
* NEW Rights vs liberty
* NEW Mars robots created in Manhattan
* NEW Ayn Rand on Johnny Carson: Once lost, now found
* NEW Gene Epstein’s speaking in NYC and Vegas
* NEW Students for Liberty FREE NY Conf., Sat., Oct. 27 
* NEW Ayn Rand and Paul Ryan 
* NEW Video showing inventions which build on each other
* NEW Rand is a constant presence on Indian bestseller lists
* NEW Three books for Ayn Rand fans coming soon
* NEW Medical Innovation: Achieve & Require, Aug. 19
* NEW "Atlas" Reading Group, by chapters, Aug. 19
* NEW New York City Ayn Rand Meetup, Aug. 26
* NEW Aids Orphans: HIV/Aids and children
* Ayn Rand walking tours, 2012
* NYCjunto-discuss list
* About this newsletter
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Junto is a group that shares information,
discusses current issues and presents speakers

SECOND SPEAKER ADDED:

8:00pm to 9:00pm
Gov. Gary Johnson
Libertarian Party candidate for President
He’ll update us on his campaign and answer questions.

9:00pm to 10:00pm
Richard Kostelanetz 
The fall and rise of New York Rockaways

Thursday, September 6

Admission Free -- No reservation necessary
* We’ll socialize from 7:00pm to 7:30pm.
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 first speaker will begin promptly at 8:00pm. The talk 
    will be uninterrupted. 
        People in the audience should take notes for questions and 
    discussion afterward.
* When the questions and discussions begins anyone in the 
    audience can have 4 minutes for a discussion or rebuttal 
    of the speaker’s points.
* The second speaker will begin promptly at 9:00pm. The talk 
    will be uninterrupted. 
        People in the audience should take notes for questions and 
    discussion afterward.
* When the questions and discussions begins anyone in the 
    audience can have 4 minutes for a discussion or rebuttal 
    of the speaker’s points.
* The meeting will continue to 10:00pm or later.

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.

8:00pm to 9:00pm
Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party candidate for President
    He’s been an outspoken advocate for efficient government, 
balanced budgets, rational drug policy reform, protection of 
civil liberties, comprehensive tax reform, and personal freedom. 
    As Governor of New Mexico, Johnson was known for his 
common sense business approach to governing. He eliminated 
New Mexico’s budget deficit, cut the rate of growth in state
government in half, and privatized half of the state prisons. 
    Mark N. Axinn, Chair, Libertarian Party NY reports the
party submitted over 26,000 signatures for Gary Johnson and 
Jim Gray, in part because of the support from Junto members. 
    Learn more about Johnson at:
GaryJohnson2012.com

9:00pm to 10:00pm
Richard Kostelanetz writes:
    Having published in 2003 a book about a NYC community 
Having published in 2003 a book about a NYC community 
in which I'd lived for three decades and knew well, I thought it 
appropriate to write another book, not quite a sequel, about the 
NYC community to which I once planned to move. If my SoHo 
was about the rise and fall of an artists' colony in whose history 
I fully participated, so this sequel would be about a decline that 
preceded my participation in its revival as NYC's premier 
beach town. As in its predecessor, I would combine objective 
description and history with personal experience, establishing 
complementary truths.
    If my SoHo memoir portrayed how an art world developed 
within NYC, but not quite of it, this book portrays a string of 
Atlantic beach towns, a group different from others along the 
East Coast in its incorporation into a great city. (Miami Beach, 
recall, is legally separate from Miami.) I suppose that if the 
development of NYC has proceeded differently over the past 
two centuries, NY could have become not just a port city but 
also a beach city, much like Rio de Janeiro, whose black and 
white mosaic path between the street and the beach became a 
popular promenade for everyone, even businessmen discussing 
deals that are then consummated when someone pulls out some 
paper or, nowadays, a laptop computer for recording details.
    If the libertarian theme of the first book held that an 
industrial slum was transformed not by any city planning but 
the spontaneous collaboration of hundreds of young people 
mostly artists who discovered that industrial spaces could be 
occupied, the theme of my Rockaways is that the central city 
undermined it in various ways after World War II. It is now 
coming back thanks to small entrepreneurs. 
    I hope to show in conjunction with my talk to do 
a PowerPoint presentation of historic images from the 
Rockaways. It draws upon my Kindle ebook: " The 
Rockaways: The Fall and Rise of NYC's Beach Towns:"
tiny.cc/Rockaways
    Richard Kostelanetz is a writer and artist. He often 
attends Junto.
    He's been a contributing/advisory editor of many arts 
journals. He's the author of over fifty books, among them are 
"Political Essays", "Thirty Years of Visible Writing", and 
"More On Innovative Music(ian)s". 
    He's also written over three dozen booklets. He's edited 
and introduced over three dozen anthologies and many essays, 
reviews, poems, fiction pieces, experimental prose pieces,
plays, scenarios, photographs, and numerical art items. In 
scores of publications and places, prominent and obscure 
around the world, he's created theatrical texts, one person 
concerts, texts for composers, choreography scores, one person 
exhibitions of prints, books, drawings, audiotapes, canvases, 
videotapes, photographs and had many retrospectives. 
    He's done Hörspiel: extended audio art. He's also created ten 
films, hologram exhibitions and over a dozen extended features 
for radio, plus many lectures and presentations at institutions 
around the world.
    His individual entries on his work in several fields appear 
in various editions of Wikipedia, NNDB.com, Britannica.com, 
Who's Who in Hell, Postmodern Fiction, Contemporary Poets, 
Who's Who in America, Contemporary Novelists, Who's Who 
in the World, Who's Who in American Art, Directory of 
American Scholars, Advocates for Self-Government, Baker's 
Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Who's Who in U.S. 
Writers, Editors, and Poets, Readers Guide to Twentieth-
Century Writers, The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of 
Literature, The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry, 
The Chronology of Webster's Dictionary of American Writers, 
The Facts on File Companion to 20th Century Poetry, 
Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets, 
The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American 
Literature, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic 
American Literature
    Individual entries on Richard's work in several fields appear
in various editions of Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century 
Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature,
Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern 
Fiction, Webster's Dictionary of American Writers, The 
HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, 
Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Directory of 
American Scholars, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in 
the World, Who's Who in American Art, NNDB.com, and 
Britannica.com, among other distinguished directories. 
    Otherwise, he survives in New York, where he was born, 
unemployed and thus overworked.
    Visit his site:
tiny.cc/rKosti

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Come to Junto, meet these upcoming speakers:

* October 4, Gary Hoover, read his bio:
tiny.cc/HooverBio

* Nov. 1, Greg Rehmke, program director Economic Thinking, 
programs for high school, homeschool & college. Visit his site: 
tiny.cc/gRehmke

NEW______________________________________________
Feel better about the world, listen to Yaron Brook 
on the Amy Peikoff show, about Paul Ryan and more.
    This weekly live webcast/podcast has discussions of news 
and politics from the perspective of Objectivism, the 
philosophy of Ayn Rand, with host Amy Peikoff.
    Yaron Brook, executive director of The Ayn Rand Institute, 
joins her in studio to talk about Ryan and the potential 
implications of him as VP for our long-term battle to improve 
the culture. He sees positives, "a great time for us." It's worth
listening to the end:
tiny.cc/YaronRyan

NEW______________________________________________
The man who allowed Hong Kong to blossom
    The Wall St. Journal had an article by Bill McGurn inspired
by Romney's promise to bring the Churchill statue back to the 
White House if he wins the presidency. 
    McGurn says Romney should make room for a statue of 
John James Cowperthwaite, too. "He was the Hong Kong 
financial secretary whose free-market convictions helped the 
war-weary colony grow into an economic powerhouse. Milton 
Friedman once explained the significance of this example: 
'Hong Kong's been very useful to me and it would be hard 
to overestimate the debt Hong Kong owes to Cowperthwaite.'
    Cowperthwaite was a disciple of Adam Smith and used his
ideas to create something close to a laissez faire government 
in Hong Kong. Friedman used Hong Kong as an example of 
what free market principles could do, turning a poor country 
into a rich one by giving it's people economic freedom.
    "Friedman first traveled to Hong Kong in 1955, when it was 
flooded with refugees from Communist China and life, he 
wrote, was 'miserable' for most of its inhabitants. He returned 
again in 1963, when things had improved, and there he met 
Cowperthwaite. Asked why he forbade officials from keeping 
numbers even for things such as gross domestic product, 
Cowperthwaite told Friedman a version of what he would tell 
me over lunch at Hong Kong's Mandarin Hotel three decades 
later. 'If I let them keep statistics,' he said, 'they can only 
misuse them.'
    "Cowperthwaite wasn't one for speeches or economic papers. 
So most of his philosophy must be gleaned from debates in 
Hong Kong's Legislative Council, where he used his 
formidable skills to fend off the latest hare-brained scheme 
for taxing Peter to subsidize Paul...."
    The article & related video interview have a Cowperthwaite 
bust which McGurn owns. He has the same sweet look as the 
actor who plays Mozzie on the TV show "White Collar."
    You can read the whole article here:
tiny.cc/SirJohn

NEW______________________________________________
Rights vs liberty
    Libertarian's usually think liberty is what's needed to give 
people freedom, but Objectivists know rights are the essential 
element. Here's the beginning of "Man's Rights" by Ayn Rand:
    If one wishes to advocate a free society -- that is, capitalism
-- one must realize that its indispensable foundation is the 
principle of individual rights. If one wishes to uphold 
individual rights, one must realize that capitalism is the only 
system that can uphold and protect them. And if one wishes 
to gauge the relationship of freedom to the goals of today's 
intellectuals, one may gauge it by the fact that the concept of 
individual rights is evaded, distorted, perverted and seldom 
discussed, most conspicuously seldom by the so-called 
"conservatives."
    "Rights" are a moral concept -- the concept that provides a 
logical transition from the principles guiding an individual's 
actions to the principles guiding his relationship with others --
the concept that preserves and protects individual morality in a 
social context -- the link between the moral code of a man and 
the legal code of a society, between ethics and politics. 
    "Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to 
moral law....
    "...there are, in fact, no "economic rights," no "collective 
rights," no "public-interest rights. The term "individual rights" 
is a redundancy: there is no other kind of rights and no one 
else to possess them.
    "Those who advocate laissez-faire capitalism are the only 
advocates of man's rights...."
    You can read all of this article at:
tiny.cc/rightsLiberty

NEW______________________________________________
Mars robots created in Manhattan
    At the last Junto Andy George told us of the company he
works for, Honeybee Robotics. They created two of the gizmos 
on the rover Curiosity which landed last Monday. 
    NY Post reported on Honeybee Robotics, "One device is 
a brush that will clean the dust off rock samples scooped from
Mars' surface.
    "The other is a robotic carousel that will transfer rocks and 
soil samples dug up by Curiosity's robot arm to the scientific 
testing equipment inside its main body.
    "These are precision operations, taking place millions of 
miles away from home in a very harsh environment," You can
read the whole article here:
tiny.cc/MarsRobots
    You can control your own dramatic panoramic view of 
Mars. This is from what is still an early phase of Curiosity's 
awakening: 
tiny.cc/360mars

NEW______________________________________________
Ayn Rand on Johnny Carson: Once lost, now found
    In 1967 Rand had this, her first appearance on the Tonight 
Show with Johnny Carson. He was so fascinated he scrapped
his other guests and kept her on the whole show. He had her 
back two more times. This video hasn't been seen since then.
    This and many other early Carson shows were lost in a fire 
at NBC. Kerry O'Quinn recently put this on the web. It was 
among home made tapes made by John Waldrop and willed 
to Kerry. Both these men were friends of mine. 
    Fred Feingersh, who used to attend Junto, talked to Rand 
afterwards, asking her how she felt about the show. She said
that during the interview she felt as if there were no problems 
in the world.
    Now it's on sites all over the web. Watch it here:
tiny.cc/RandCarson

NEW______________________________________________
Gene Epstein's speaking in NYC and Vegas
    The Junto moderator, Barron's economics editor and books 
editor, will speak at Columbia U. on Sat. Oct. 27 as part of the 
Student's for Liberty conference, time to be determined. 
Info in next item below.
    He'll be a featured speaker at FreedomFest at Caesar's Palace, 
Las Vegas, July 10 - 13, 2013.

NEW______________________________________________
Students for Liberty FREE NY Conference, Sat., Oct. 27 
    At the last Junto Neil McGettigan, campus coordinator, told
us a bit about this event. Hosted by Columbia U. Libertarians
    The largest annual regional conference, bringing together 
students from the NYC metro area and all over the NE 
    You'll hear top speakers in the libertarian movement, 
network with other pro-liberty students, discover countless 
opportunities for jobs, internships, conferences and seminars
and have a lot of fun with other students. 
    Speakers, panels and breakout sessions on the ideas behind 
a free society and the actions necessary to implement them. 
Three free meals and drinks at an evening social are included 
with your FREE registration. Register today!
Conference 9:00am - 8:00pm, social 8:00pm - 10:00pm
FREE of Charge
    * Morning keynote: Greg Lukianoff, president of FIRE, 
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Director of 
legal and public advocacy, member of the State Bar of Calif.
and bar of Supreme Court U.S. First ever recipient of the 
Playboy Foundation Freedom of Expression Award and got
Ford Hall Forum's First Amendment Award on behalf of FIRE.
    He practiced law in N. Calif., co-author "FIRE's Guide to 
Free Speech on Campus," author "Unlearning Liberty" this fall.
    * Evening keynote – Tom G. Palmer, VP Atlas Network and
Cato Senior Fellow. Director of Cato U., executive VP 
international programs Atlas Economic Research Foundation. 
Has published reviews and articles on politics and morality in 
scholarly journals and general publications. Author "Realizing 
Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice" and editor 
"The Morality of Capitalism."
    * Civil Liberties Panel: NYPD and civil liberties abuses, 
including stop and frisk. More participants to be announced.
    Mark Naison prof. History and African-American Studies, 
Fordham U., author four books and over 100 articles.
    Omar Wasow, BlackPlanet.com. Pursuing doctorate in 
African American studies and political science at Harvard. 
    Register and more info the 2012 NYC Regional Conference:
StudentsForLiberty.org

NEW______________________________________________
Ayn Rand and Paul Ryan 
    * Ryan's announcement as Republican Presidential V.P. was 
followed by many articles and interviews which mentioned
Ryan was a fan of some of Rand's ideas.
    * In a video Ryan said, “And I think a lot of people would 
observe we are right now living in an Ayn Rand novel, 
metaphorically speaking.”
    * Soon Ryan was the second top-trending nonsponsored 
topic on Twitter with Ayn Rand in seventh place.
    * The day after the announcement actor Rob Lowe on 
Twitter bemoaned that Rand's name is often met with "vitriol." 
Lowe said, " 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual
that I can imagine."
    * Ryan said he "always goes back to Francisco d'Anconia's
speech from 'Atlas Shrugged' when he thinks about the Fed." 
He's not an Objectivist or fully a free market person but it's
still nice to read things like that. Complete article here:
tiny.cc/RyanFrisco
    * Interview magazine reveals Anne Hathaway as a 
self-identified Ayn Rand fan, joining the ranks of  Brad Pitt, 
Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock and Eva Mendes. 
    She says: "When I began 'Atlas Shrugged,' I was really 
excited, because Ayn Rand said that 'The Fountainhead' 
was the overture to 'Atlas Shrugged.'...The characters are 
so compelling and what she's saying is mind-expanding. 
I really enjoyed that book and it was kind of prophetic."
tiny.cc/AynAnne
    * Many people are studying up on Rand because there are so 
many articles mentioning her in connection with Ryan. For that 
reason "Atlas" is number 112 on Amazon's bestseller list. 
    Andrew Bernstein's Cliffnotes of "Atlas" is number two 
on Amazon's Book Notes bestseller list. 
    That made me curious about what might be number one on 
Amazon's Book Notes bestseller list. It's this Kindle book:
     "The Ultimate Ayn Rand Quicklet Bundle":
* Atlas Shrugged
* The Fountainhead
* The Virtue of Selfishness
* Philosophy: Who Needs It
* The Romantic Manifesto
    It doesn't look like a good book but it's OK. People will do 
better reading about her ideas at Wikipedia, Ayn Rand Institute
or The Atlas Society. 

NEW______________________________________________
Video online showing inventions which build on each other
    "Everything is a Remix Part 3" by Kirby Ferguson, shows
that "creativity isn't magic." It's part of a series which 
"explores how innovations truly happens." It demonstrates 
that inventions are all remixes. 
    This is a favorite of Naomi Brockwell who recommended it. 
She often attends Junto. Watch it at:
tiny.cc/inventionBuilds

NEW______________________________________________
Rand is a constant presence on Indian bestseller lists
    NY Newsday reports she's also regularly named as the 
favorite author on lists of influential Indians -- from company 
CEOs to Bollywood stars. 

NEW______________________________________________
Three books for Ayn Rand fans coming soon
    * "Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End 
Big Government" by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins, Aug. 18. 
A video interview with Brook: "People don't vote their 
pocketbooks, people vote what they think is right," says Brook, 
president of The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights.
"So we need a moral revolution in this country, and that's 
how we get a free market revolution."
At FreedomFest 2012, Reason's Matt Welch sat down with 
Brook to discuss what Obama has meant for sales of "Atlas 
Shrugged," why big government hurts the poor and how Ayn 
Rand inspired the Tea Party.
FreedomFest, Las Vegas, attended by about 2,000 limited-govt
enthusiasts and libertarians yearly. Here's the video interview:
tiny.cc/YaronFreeMkt
    * "The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are 
Going Out" by Leonard Peikoff, Sept. 4.
The groundbreaking and controversial DIM hypothesis casts 
a new light on the process of human thought and thereby on 
Western culture and history. 
"One type of mindset works to integrate data by rational means 
(which Peikoff calls "Integration," or for short "I"). Another 
seeks to integrate by non-rational means ("Misintegration," or 
"M"). A third opposes integration of any kind ("Disintegration," 
or "D"). Thus the acronym DIM."
    * "The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why 
Pure Capitalism is the World Economy's Only Hope"
by John A. Allison, Sept. 27.
"Required reading....Shows how our economic crisis
was a failure, not of the free market, but of government."
Charles Koch, Chairman and CEO, Koch Industries

NEW______________________________________________
Medical Innovation: Achievements and Requirements, Aug. 19
    New York Objectivist Society presents Anna Franco on 
Sun., Aug. 19, 3:00pm to 4:30pm, at The Estonian House, 
243 E. 34 St. west of 2nd Ave.
    She'll examine several cases in medical history and some 
recent events to illustrate advances in medical innovation and 
the growth of the regulatory system that oversees the medical 
marketplace. 
    Anna holds an MA philosophy, Claremont Graduate School, 
an MBA, Rice U. and an undergraduate degree in earth and 
planetary science, MIT. 
    She's a part-time adjunct instructor in business management 
with an interest in innovation. She's also taught philosophy as 
part-time instructor and has worked as a medical proofreader/
copy editor for a subsidiary of Allergan.
    $20 cash will be collected at the door. 
"Atlas" Reading Group below follows...

NEW______________________________________________
"Atlas Shrugged" Reading Group, a chapter a month, Aug. 19 
    New York Objectivist Society, third Sun. every month, 
5:00pm to 7:00pm.
    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.
    The Estonian House, 243 E. 34 St. west of 2nd Ave.
Read about it here:
tiny.cc/AtlasRead

NEW______________________________________________
New York City Ayn Rand Meetup, Aug. 26
    Come join us on Sunday, 3:00pm.
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 on the last Sunday of each month.
Learn more about it at: 
AynRand.meetup.com/8

NEW______________________________________________
Aids Orphans: HIV/Aids and children
    At the Aug. Junto we were told about this charity which 
helps children who've lost one or both parents to HIV/Aids 
and/or may have it themselves. 
    They have projects in Kenya and India. Learn more and 
donate at:
AidsOrphan.net

NEW______________________________________________
Ayn Rand walking tours 2012
    Fred Cookinham has five different Ayn Rand walking tours:
tiny.cc/TourRand  
    Some dates scheduled but all are available as private tours. 

Ayn Rand’s Park Avenue, EVERY Wed., 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. 
    11:00am, Nov. 4, Sun., Nov. 24, Sat. 

"Atlas Shrugged," Nov. and private tours   
See places Rand researched and fictionalized in her novel, 
around and in Grand Central Terminal. 
    11:00am , Nov. 17, Sat., Nov. 18, Sun. 

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.

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 had fancy dinners. 

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 more Art Deco.

All scheduled tours are $20, for those over 65 it's $15, 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 
    Visit his blog at:
tiny.cc/FredBlog
    "Fred is a kind of poet and street professor...." Anne Heller, 
NY Observer, author "Ayn Rand and the World She Made."
    "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's tours keep getting better, because he's always doing 
more research. He's often at Junto and Ayn Rand Meetups. 
He's done many readings of 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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