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Ayn Rand Interviewed with Mickey Spillane by Mike Wallace
Ayn Rand Institute Live!
English - October 21, 2022 22:10 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 97 ratingsCourses Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Mike Wallace interviews Ayn Rand and Mickey Spillane on their reasons for becoming authors, their view of what makes a hero, and why, despite being viciously denounced by critics, they both maintain a large popular appeal. Hear Ayn Rand’s straight-to-the-point analysis of her own and Mickey Spillane’s work in this 1961 interview.
Audio licensed courtesy of The Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.