Rocking the Boat
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- Full Title: Rocking the Boat
- Author(s): Gore Vidal
- Year Published: 1962
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
- Publication Type: Commercial
- ISBN-10: n/a
- ISBN-13: n/a
- Description: This is a collection of essays written by Vidal for various newspapers and magazines. One of the articles, originally published in Esquire, attacks Rand as an "odd little woman [who] is attempting to give a moral sanction to greed and self-interest." (Vidal's article provoked a reply by Leonard Peikoff, which was also published in Esquire.)
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Chapters significantly related to Ayn Rand or Objectivism are indicated in bold.
- Foreword
- Politics
- John Kennedy: A Translation for the English
- Barry Goldwater: A Chat
- The House Un-American Activities Committee
- HUAC Revisited
- Closing the Civilization Gap
- The Future of Conservatism
- Theater
- Love Love Love
- Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet
- Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House
- The Commercialites
- The Couch in the Shrine: Dore Schary and Paddy Chayefsky
- Strangers at Breakfast: Five Finger Exercise
- Books
- Ladders to Heaven: Novelists and Critics of the 1940's
- A Note on the Novel
- The Demotic Novel: John Dos Passos
- Norman Mailer: The Angels Are White
- Carson McCullers's Clock without Hands
- In the Shadow of the Scales: Friedrich Duerrenmatt
- Book Report: Robert Penn Warren's Band of Angels
- The Making of a Hero and a Legend: Richard Hillary
- Footnote to the Dreyfus Case
- Robert Graves and the Twelve Caesars
- Social Climbing, According to the Books
- Two Immoralists: Orville Prescott and Ayn Rand
- Evelyn Waugh
- The Unrocked Boat: Satire in the 1950's
- Personal
- Writing Plays for Television
- Putting on Visit to a Small Planet
- A Note on The Best Man
- Appendix: Notes to the Chapters
- Excerpt from the chapter that discusses Rand
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