The 1959 Mike Wallace Ayn Rand Interview

“In an effort to publicize [Atlas Shrugged], Ayn agreed to an interview with Mike Wallace, on his New York television show, ’Night Beat,’ the hard-driving program that began his rise to prominence. They liked each other immediately, and were to visit together on a number of occasions over the following years. ’She was perfect grist for the mill of Night Beat,’ Mike later said. ’She voiced provocative opinions, she was anti-establishment and utterly unexpected, with a kind of close reasoning and a clarity th