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Some November Titles: A Better World: The Great Schism: Stalinism and the American Intellectuals (Simon & Schuster, $17.95), by William L. O’Neill, is an intellectual history of the split between the non-Communists and Stalinist intellectuals in the United States between 1939 and 1960. O’Neill, who is also the author of a biography of Max Eastman, concludes that the progressives were guilty of deliberately overlooking heinous realities while the anti-Stalinists were right on target in perceiving Stalinism as “the principle enemy of freedom and culture after WW II.”

. . . Ayn Rand’s Philosophy: Who Needs It? (Bobbs-Merrill, $15.95), with an introduction by Leonard Peikoff, is a collection of 18 articles taken from the late author’s newsletter, the burden of which is that philosophy, not politics, will change the world.

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Some November Titles: A Better World: The Great Schism: Stalinism and the American Intellectuals (Simon & Schuster, $17.95), by William L. O’Neill, is an intellectual history of the split between the non-Communists and Stalinist intellectuals in the United States between 1939 and 1960. O’Neill, who is also the author of a biography of Max Eastman, concludes that the progressives were guilty of deliberately overlooking heinous realities while the anti-Stalinists were right on target in perceiving Stalinism as “the principle enemy of freedom and culture after WW II.”

. . . Ayn Rand’s Philosophy: Who Needs It? (Bobbs-Merrill, $15.95), with an introduction by Leonard Peikoff, is a collection of 18 articles taken from the late author’s newsletter, the burden of which is that philosophy, not politics, will change the world.