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	Advocates for Self-Government - Libertarian Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		She was managing editor of The Objectivist and executive vice president of the Nathaniel Branden Institute which conducted courses on Ayn Rand's individualist philosophy across the United States.
		It starred Helen Mirren as Rand, Peter Fonda as Frank O'Connor, Eric Stolz as Nathaniel Branden and Julie Delpy as Barbara.
		There was a cameo role for Barbara playing her mother.
	www.theadvocates.org /celebrities/barbara-branden.html (392 words)

	Branden's recent writings
		Branden claims that anyone who agrees with Rand's philosophy in its entirety, viewing it as an integrated whole (a category of people which definitely includes myself), is approaching it as dogmatic religion.
		Had Branden clearly specified what he means by the ambiguous phrase "Ayn Rand's propositions", either way, the falsity of his charge, and the fact that he has not supported it at all, would have been obvious to any reader familiar with the Objectivist movement.
		Branden claims to have discovered an important distinction, that "very few people are able to keep clear"; and he specifically asserts that Rand was confused regarding this distinction, between reason and "the reasonable".
	members.tripod.com /~mozes/brwr.html (1630 words)

	Barbara Branden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barbara Branden (born 1929, Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a writer, editor, and lecturer.
		In 1968, Ayn Rand terminated her relationship with Nathaniel Branden after she discovered that he was engaged in an ongoing romantic relationship with actress Patrecia Scott.
		Barbara Branden has remained active in Objectivist circles and, in 1986, published The Passion of Ayn Rand, a biography.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Branden (348 words)

	The Infidels - Nathaniel Branden
		Branden subsequently admitted to behaving "irrationally" though in his memoirs he would later admit that he considered Rand's move a hysterical over-reaction.
		Branden's account provides an inside view of Ayn Rand as a person, the development of Objectivism, its inner circle, and the tumultuous relationships between Ayn Rand and her associates.
		As a psychologist Branden has elucidated the crucial role of self-esteem in psychological health, and has outlined the volitional practices he has observed to be essential to achieving and maintaining self-esteem.
	www.theinfidels.org /zunb-nathanielbranden.htm (819 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Nathaniel Brandon
		Branden was a disciple and lover of Ayn Rand.
		Branden was friends with Rand but has left the Rand institute after a very large and public battle with them over this exact issue.
		Early 1968 Rand confides to Barbara Branden that she is bewildered by Nathaniel Branden's behavior and attitudes.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=3410 (2743 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The disaster finally came in 1968 when it became known to Rand that Branden had fallen in love with yet another woman, and had begun an affair with her.
		Branden presented me with a written statement which was so irrational and so offensive to me that I had to break my personal association with him." Without so much as a hint of the nature of the offense Rand continued: "About two months later Mrs.
		Branden had been concealing from me certain ugly actions and irrational behavior in his private life, which was grossly contradictory to Objectivist morality.
	www.katot.org /Index/Comment_920.asp (603 words)

	Philosophy Abstracts at The Idea Channel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Barbara Branden, author of "The Passion of Ayn Rand," discusses her friend and mentor Ayn Rand.
		Branden explores Rand's life and complex personality, as well as her unique philosophy which led to the rise of the Objectivist movement.
		Barbara Branden also discusses Ayn Rand's work, particularly her masterpieces "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged." She comments on the critical reception Rand's work received, and how that reception affected her personality.
	www.ideachannel.com /PhilosophyAbstracts.htm (408 words)

	Nathaniel Branden - Articles & Essays - On Objectivism
		Barbara Branden's responce to Ayn Rand's 1968 article, "To Whom it May Concern" (The Objectivist, May 1968).
		In the article, Rand announced that she had broken her personal and professional ties with two long-time associates, Nathaniel and Barbara Branden.
		Nathaniel and Barbara Branden prepared a response to Rand's statement and mailed it to all of The Objectivist's subscribers.
	www.nathanielbranden.com /catalog/articles.php?tPath=2 (346 words)

	Richard Speer Interviews Barbara Branden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A longtime friend (and sometime adversary) of controversial author/philosopher Ayn Rand, Barbara was on the scene when Rand wrote her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, which rocketed the philosopher to new heights as an intellectual provocateur.
		Barbara, along with husband Nathaniel Branden, helped spread Rand's pro-reason philosophy, Objectivism, throughout the late 1950s and 1960s, until a catastrophic rift developed between Rand and the Brandens in 1968.
		An elegant woman with a deep, velvety voice, Barbara chatted with me about her heady days with Rand, the awful schism that tore them apart, their eventual reconciliation, and her thoughts on the present and future influence of Rand's thought on philosophy, politics, and popular culture.
	www.richardspeer.com /speerandbarbarabranden.html (165 words)

	Rand and the Brandens: A Chronology
		Rand confides to Barbara Branden that she is bewildered by Nathaniel Branden's behavior and attitudes.
		Branden gives Rand a written paper telling her that the difference in their ages prevents him from being romantically interested in her.
		Barbara Branden telephones Rand and tells her she will be visiting New York.
	www.noblesoul.com /orc/bio/brandens.html (1278 words)

	Review Essay on James Valliant's The Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics
		And if Barbara Branden was, for example, the conventionally greedy woman Valliant suggests she is, I can only wonder why she refused to continue hiding the truth of Nathaniel's affair with Patrecia Gullison from Rand, even though doing so would have cleared the way for Rand to name Barbara her heir in 1968.
		Branden, who “had written on the relationship between force and fraud as means of manipulation,” committed a moral crime against Rand, Valliant argues, and what “his crime lacked in violence, it made up for in prolonged psychological torment and deception” (383).
		Branden himself admits to feeding into this antigay attitude in the Objectivist subculture of the 1960s, and it was his 1983 lecture on "Love and Sex in the Philosophy of Ayn Rand," among other works, that began a much-needed post-Randian reassessment of that topic (see Sciabarra 1995, 200-1; 2003, 10-16).
	www.nyu.edu /pages/projects/sciabarra/essays/valliant.htm (14504 words)

	OFFICIAL OBJECTIVISM - Barbara Branden - Objectivist Living Forum
		Even in parts where Barbara later stated to have changed her views (for example, the essay, “Who is Ayn Rand?”), these works were endorsed by Rand and should be considered as integral parts of Objectivism and studied as such.
		This is an interesting fact about Barbara that does not count as "intellectual contribution" in the "writing articles" sense, however it was a critical idea for the spread of Objectivism as a movement in the beginning.
		And speaking of getting historical facts straight, it was Barbara Branden who initiated the idea of offering our Objectivist courses via tape transcription across the country and beyond, and that, dear people, was a major factor in making Objectivism a national phenomenon culturally.
	www.objectivistliving.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=199 (1314 words)

	BIOGRAPHY "THE PASSION OF AYN RAND" IS AN INACCURATE CHRONICLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Branden’s statement that “Critics do not agree that Vidor was a naturalist” has nothing to do with the rest of her argument and only demonstrates that she was unable to comprehend the statement she quoted.
		Barbara Branden, in expressing how Rand felt about her work being presented in 1972 in the form she had intended it, actually quotes from Rand’s introduction to the book version of the 1960s edit of the play, which was published in 1968.
		Barbara Branden in her book claims that NBI was an efficient business that was able to anticipate gross receipts for a given year within two to three percent (p 350).
	arbio.dhwritings.com (4275 words)

	Barbara Branden and TOC \| SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I think that the invitation of Barbara Branden to speak at The Objectivist Center summer seminar was inappropriate based on her recent conduct.
		This defense by Barbara Branden indicates that she is out of touch with the facts of reality, or that she is consciously lying about them.
		The problem that I have with Barbara Branden about the Jim Peron issue is not what did she know, and when should she have known it.
	www.solopassion.com /node/796 (5478 words)

	NoodleFood: My History with Nathaniel and Barbara Branden
		Both Nathaniel and Barbara Branden were invited to speak at "Atlas and the World," although Barbara had to cancel at the last moment due to illness.
		Barbara Branden was featured as the keynote speaker at the 10th anniversary banquet in 1999.
		Nathaniel Branden was such a regular fixture at TOC that he was widely regarded as the Benevolent Patriarch of Objectivism.
	www.dianahsieh.com /blog/2006/03/my-history-with-nathaniel-and-barbara.html (3946 words)

	Survival Arts: Barbara Branden, author of "The Passion of Ayn Rand"
		Barbara Branden, author of "The Passion of Ayn Rand"
		Her book had been published the year before, and I'd bought my own copy as soon as it hit the bookstores (this was the pre-Amazon era).
		At the end of March this year, a few weeks ago, I finally got the chance to chat with Barbara in a comfortable venue where she was wasn't being shuttled around to talks, in the course of other business: her apartment in southern California.
	www.survivalarts.com /archives/001018.html (176 words)

	The Passion of Ayn Rand - Barbara Branden - Used Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		According to an article by Claudia Roth Pierpont in the July 24, 1995 issues of "The New Yorker," "Barbara was quiet and serious, and was physically 'of the Dominique [from "The Fountainhead"] style,' Rand noted; though she was clearly not Nathan's equal, Rand approved of the match.
		Author Barbara Branden, who knew Rand for nineteen years, provides a matchless portrait of this fiercely private and complex woman.
		Barbara Branden, who knew the legendary writer for 19 years, provides a consummate portrait of this private and complex woman.
	www.biblio.com /books/17232544.html (411 words)

	Amazon.de: The Passion of Ayn Rand: A Biography: English Books: Barbara Branden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Another very disturbing scene: Barabara Branden, suffering from crippling panic attacks because of her inability to cope with this very weird four-sided affair, calls Rand for help and is told, "How dare you think about yourself instead of me!' Ah, yes, the utter blindness of the narcissist.
		Add to the pile of corpses the Brandens (the author and her husband) and countless other victims of her vicious philosophy, and what you have in Barbara Branden's biography is the tale of a nutcase, who when not railing against altruism didn't believe one lung later that excessive cigarette smoking led to her lung cancer.
		The only problem I had was that Branden (the author) was using it to work out her anger, etc. at Rand for her affair with Branden's then-husband.
	www.amazon.de /Passion-Ayn-Rand-Biography/dp/038524388X (1434 words)

	Amazon.com: The Passion of Ayn Rand: Books: Barbara Branden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Branden, a close friend of Rand in the 1950s and 1960s, offers us an intimate portrait, using printed sources, memories, and interviews as she eases back and forth between Rand's professional and private selves.
		After many years Barbara Branden went back and wrote a fuller, more human biography with details she was able to glean from the normally reticent Rand, who edited away her past as so much irrelevant junk.
		Barbara Branden (and Nathaniel Branden) were two of Ayn Rand's closest associates from the time after publishing The Fountainhead through Atlas Shrugged and "the Collective" years.
	www.amazon.com /Passion-Ayn-Rand-Barbara-Branden/dp/038524388X (2379 words)

	PRODOS.COM, James Valliant, The Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics, Nathaniel & Barbara Branden's
		Branden, in the twelve years of our marriage, was the extent to which I permitted our lives to be subordinated to Miss Rand's personal interests and needs.
		Branden was growing more and more intense; she was grossly exaggerating the nature and moral meaning of the mistake he had made; she began hurling accusations against him that had no factual foundation whatever.
		It seemed as though, from the time she had decided to break with him, she felt a growing need to persuade herself, and to communicate to others, that he was a monster.
	www.prodos.com /archive073jamesvalliant01.html (1797 words)

	Laissez Faire Books
		Branden has interviewed more than two hundred people, including Ayn's sister Nora, an aunt she stayed with in Chicago, cousins, members of her husband's family, associates from her days in Hollywood, early conservative and libertarian friends, and many, many more besides.
		Barbara uses a very interesting literary touch here: the protagonist is not Ayn Rand, with all that name has come to symbolize, but rather a young girl, Alice Rosenbaum, growing up in Russia.
		Once the book reaches the 1950s, Barbara has to deal with what must be seen objectively as her biggest challenge: how to write about the affair that Ayn had with Barbara's then-husband, Nathaniel Branden.
	www.lfb.com /index.php?stocknumber=AR9001 (1700 words)

	The Anger of Compassion: Piling On, Part II: Barbara Branden
		There's an incident in her book (in chapter 30, related on page 377 of the first edition) in which Barbara Branden is attempting to contact Ayn Rand's sister Nora, in Leningrad.
		Rothbard himself, as well as his colleague and eventual Objectivist, George Reisman, placed their first meeting as having occurred in 1954, years before Atlas Shrugged's was publication in October 1957 (Reisman was in fact introduced to Rand by Rothbard, as was Robert Hessen).
		Branden asserts -- without evidence -- that it was Rand who really wrote the article on film history with O'Connor's by-line published in The Objectivist, Rand nowhere is said to have credited her husband with any great achievement (apart from the aid he rendered to Rand herself) or major career goal.
	www.ladysmaidjewels.com /Cblog/archives/000870.html (1482 words)

	Book Beat
		According to their eventual accounts, Nathaniel Branden and Ayn Rand had a somewhat tumultuous affair, starting when Nathaniel was in his early twenties, and with the knowledge and consent of their spouses.
		Barbara did not know the full truth all along but did learn it eventually and helped hide it from Rand before finally letting the cat out of the bag.
		The Brandens tell a story, one which doesn't exactly exculpate themselves, which is exactly the same story evidenced by Rand's notes.
	www.isil.org /books-n-stuff/book-beat/ayn-rand-on-nb.html (1169 words)

	James Valliant on Ayn Rand, Barbara Branden and Libertarianism \| SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists
		Barbara Branden notes that the LP has been divided by those who advocate limited government and strong defense on one hand and anarcho-capitalists on the other.
		Branden’s conclusion is: “In the opinion of many people, the anarchist wing has deeply undermined the effectiveness of the Libertarian Party in recent years.
		Valliant does quote Branden’s claim on page 391 that Rand exhibited “despair” and “pessimism” because she was wary about younger writers who wrote about her philosophy.
	www.solopassion.com /node/1605 (1572 words)

	Barbara Branden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This site provides biographical information about Barbara (including some photos of interest) as well as information about her landmark biography The Passion of Ayn Rand and Showtime's movie adaptation of the book.
		This web site also contains a description of Barbara's seminal course "Principles of Efficient Thinking", her interview with the publication Full Context, and a short essay by Barbara on smoking, as well as her answer to Ayn Rand's famous charges of wrongdoing (from the 1960's).
		The site also features information about the anthology Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, to which Barbara was a contributor, and features Barbara's growing collection of book reviews.
	barbarabranden.com /main.html (123 words)

	Anne'Xed Network brings you The Passion of Ayn Rand Reviews
		And Barbara Branden, due to the conflict with her cousin Leonard Peikoff, Rand’s heir, was told she wouldn’t be allowed to attend.
		But what should really bother Dr. Branden is the fact that Patrecia, who attended lectures at NBI (called BI in the film), is portrayed as a patient in his psychology practice.
		In life the real Patrecia, as described by Barbara, was charming with an "unusual emotional spontaneity and openess, and, at times, a startingly acute sensitivity." In the film none of this is portrayed and thus Nathaniel’s love for her come across as almost pity.
	www.annexed.net /box/rand/revpoar.html (2236 words)

	FIOAR Discussion - B. Branden
		Barbara refers to Rand's concept of femininity as "hero worship" to be her "contradiction to feminism." I know we will be discussing the notion of hero worship in much greater detail later in our four-month conference on this book.
		After all, even if Rand was not bisexual (and I see no evidence anywhere that she was), her smashing of stereotypes in her life was certainly in keeping with much of the gender revolution of feminism.
		You wrote: "What do people think about the possibility, raised by Barbara, that Rand may have been marginalized in professional philosophy precisely because she was a woman?" I should add something that I thought would be clear, but seems not to be.
	www.nyu.edu /pages/projects/sciabarra/fem/Femdis/femdbb.htm (1129 words)

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