I was always puzzled as to how she found her way into that magical world where one gets rich delivering public lectures. I had never heard about her husband before. I knew that, in the mid-1950s, she took on one of her students as her lover; as it happens, the married psychologist who wrote the first major work on #selfesteem, no doubt based in large part on Ayn Rand herself. Turns out her decades of high self-esteem were fortified by ongoing massive doses of amphetimines, as