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The books listed below are ones reviewed in magazines Ayn Rand edited or endorsed. In a few cases, the articles are introductions or discussions that are not traditional reviews, but in all cases listed below the author gives some recommendation regarding the quality or usefulness of the book. Reviews are summarized as either "Positive," "Negative," or "Mixed. A "Positive" review may have some caveats or reservations. "Mixed" is used only in cases where positives are mixed with major reservations.
| Title | Author | Reviewed In | Reviewer | Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The American University | Jacques Barzun | The Objectivist, November 1968 | Robert Hessen | Positive |
| The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality | Ludwig von Mises | The Objectivist Newsletter, May 1962 | Edith Efron | Positive |
| Aristotle | John Herman Randall | The Objectivist Newsletter, May 1963 | Ayn Rand | Mixed |
| Beyond Freedom and Dignity | B.F. Skinner | The Ayn Rand Letter, January 17, 1972 | Ayn Rand | Negative |
| Calumet 'K' | Samuel Merwin and Henry Webster | The Objectivist, October 1967 | Ayn Rand | Positive |
| Citizenship Education | Joyce F. Jones | The Objectivist, June 1967 | Avis Brick | Positive |
| Day of the Guns | Mickey Spillane | The Objectivist Newsletter, October 1964 | Ayn Rand | Negative |
| The Decline of American Liberalism | Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. | The Objectivist Newsletter, July 1962 | Robert Hessen | Positive |
| The Democrat's Dilemma | Philip M. Crane | The Objectivist Newsletter, October 1965 | Joan Meltzer | Positive |
| East Minus West = Zero | Werner Keller | The Objectivist Newsletter, November 1962 | Edith Efron | Positive |
| Economics and the Public Welfare: Financial and Economic History of the United States, 1914-1946 | Benjamin M. Anderson | The Objectivist Newsletter, May 1965 | Martin Anderson | Positive |
| Economics in One Lesson | Henry Hazlitt | The Objectivist Newsletter, February 1962 | Robert Hessen | Positive |
| Emotion and Personality | Magda Arnold | The Objectivist, January 1966 | Robert Efron | Positive |
| ESP: A Scientific Evaluation | C.E.M. Hansel | The Objectivist, March 1967 | Robert Efron | Positive |
| The Federal Bulldozer | Martin Anderson | The Objectivist, April 1966 | Beatrice Hessen | Positive |
| The Feminine Mystique | Betty Friedan | The Objectivist Newsletter, July 1963 | Edith Efron | Positive |
| The Girl Hunters | Mickey Spillane | The Objectivist Newsletter, October 1962 | Ayn Rand | Positive |
| The God of the Machine | Isabel Patterson | The Objectivist Newsletter, October 1964 | Ayn Rand | Positive |
| The Greatest Plot in History | Ralph de Toledano | The Objectivist Newsletter, May 1964 | Edith Efron | Positive |
| A History of Philosophy | Wilhelm Windelband | The Objectivist Newsletter, September 1964 | Leonard Peikoff | Positive |
| A History of Western Philosophy | W.T. Jones | The Objectivist Newsletter, September 1964 | Leonard Peikoff | Positive |
| How to Raise a Brighter Child | Joan Beck | The Objectivist, September 1968 | Beatrice Hessen | Positive |
| Human Action | Ludwig von Mises | The Objectivist Newsletter, September 1963 | Nathaniel Branden | Positive |
| The Language of Dissent | Lowell Mason | The Objectivist Newsletter, August 1963 | Ayn Rand | Positive |
| Lillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me | Lillian Gish with Ann Pinchot | The Objectivist, November 1969 | Frank O'Connor, as told to Ayn Rand | Positive |
| The Man Who Laughs | Victor Hugo | The Objectivist, December 1967 | Ayn Rand | Positive |
| My Testimony | Anatoly Marchenko | The Objectivist, July 1970 | Susan Ludel | Positive |
| Ninety-Three | Victor Hugo | The Objectivist Newsletter, October 1962 | Ayn Rand | Positive |
| Omnipotent Government | Ludwig von Mises | The Objectivist, August 1970 | Robert Hessen | Positive |
| Philosophic Classics | Walter Kaufmann (editor) | The Objectivist Newsletter, September 1964 | Leonard Peikoff | Positive |
| Planned Chaos | Ludwig von Mises | The Objectivist Newsletter, January 1962 | Barbara Branden | Positive |
| Poverty Is Where the Money Is | Shirley Scheibla | The Objectivist, August 1969 | Ayn Rand | Positive |
| Preserve and Protect | Allen Drury | The Objectivist, December 1968 | Erika Holzer | Positive |
| Prosperity Through Freedom | Lawrence Fertig | The Objectivist Newsletter, May 1962 | Edith Efron | Positive |
| Reason and Analysis | Brand Blanshard | The Objectivist Newsletter, February 1963 | Nathaniel Branden | Positive |
| The Roosevelt Myth | John T. Flynn | The Objectivist Newsletter, December 1962 | Barbara Branden | Positive |
| Roosevelt's Road to Russia | George N. Crocker | The Objectivist Newsletter, January 1964 | Beatrice Hessen | Positive |
| Ta Ta, Tan Tan | Valentin Chu | The Objectivist Newsletter, November 1963 | Robert Hessen | Positive |
| Teaching Montessori in the Home | Elizabeth G. Hainstock | The Objectivist, July 1971 | Beatrice Hessen | Positive |
| Ten Thousand Commandments | Harold Fleming | The Objectivist Newsletter, April 1962 | Ayn Rand | Positive |
| The Throne of Saturn | Allen Drury | The Objectivist, May 1971 | Susan Ludel | Negative |
| The Tyranny of Testing | Banesh Hoffman | The Objectivist Newsletter, March 1964 | Joan Blumenthal | Positive |
| Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development, 1917 to 1930 | Anthony C. Sutton | The Objectivist, January 1970 | Robert Hessen | Positive |
| Workers' Paradise Lost | Eugene Lyons | The Objectivist, January 1968 | Beatrice Hessen | Positive |
| The World of Andrew Carnegie | Louis M. Hacker | The Objectivist, April 1969 | Robert Hessen | Positive |
Note: Review listings for The Intellectual Activist are incomplete for items reviewed after 1999.
| Title | Author | Reviewed In | Reviewer | Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z | Harry Binswanger (editor) | The Intellectual Activist, May 28, 1987 | Edward Cline | Positive |
| Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical | Chris Matthew Sciabarra | The Intellectual Activist, January 1996 | John Ridpath | Negative |
| Ayn Rand's Marginalia | Robert Mayhew (editor) | The Intellectual Activist, January 1996 | Lisa Waldman | Positive |
| A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles | Thomas Sowell | The Intellectual Activist, May 31, 1988 | George Walsh | Negative |
| The Daughter of a Magnate | Frank Spearman | The Intellectual Activist, March 1997 | Andrew Bernstein | Positive |
| Economics in One Lesson | Henry Hazlitt | The Intellectual Activist, September 1, 1980 | George Reisman | Positive |
| The Enlightenment in America | Ernest Cassara | The Intellectual Activist, February 27, 1989 | Richard Salsman | Positive |
| The Excuse Factory | Walter Olson | The Intellectual Activist, September 1997 | Robert Tracinski | Positive |
| The Fate of the Earth | Jonathan Schell | The Intellectual Activist, June 9, 1983 | James Hickel | Negative |
| Gold and Liberty | Richard Salsman | The Intellectual Activist, July 1995 | Robert Garmong | Positive |
| Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 | Barry Eichengreen | The Intellectual Activist, January 1995 | Richard M. Salsman | Negative |
| The Government Against the Economy | George Reisman | The Objectivist Forum, April 1980 | Harry Binswanger | Positive |
| The Graves of Academe | Richard Mitchell | The Intellectual Activist, July 29, 1983 | Arthur Mode | Positive |
| Held for Orders | Frank Spearman | The Intellectual Activist, March 1997 | Andrew Bernstein | Positive |
| In Defense of the Corporation | Robert Hessen | The Intellectual Activist, April 1, 1980 | Robert Getman | Positive |
| Inside the Criminal Mind | Stanton E. Samenow | The Objectivist Forum, April 1984 | Edwin A. Locke | Positive |
| Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology - Expanded Second Edition | Ayn Rand; Harry Binswanger and Leonard Peikoff (editors) | The Intellectual Activist, September 3, 1991 | Linda Rearden | Positive |
| KGB Today: The Hidden Hand | John Barron | The Objectivist Forum, October 1983 | Edwin A. Locke | Positive |
| The Last Place on Earth | Roland Huntford | The Objectivist Forum, April 1987 | Michelle Fram | Positive |
| Letters of Ayn Rand | Michael S. Berliner (editor) | The Intellectual Activist, September 1995 | Dina Garmong | Positive |
| The Life and Legend of Jay Gould | Maury Klein | The Intellectual Activist, August 17, 1988 | Richard Salsman | Positive |
| Losing Our Language | Sandra Stotsky | The Intellectual Activist, June 1999 | Andrew Hazlett | Positive |
| Marva Collins' Way | Marva Collins and Civia Tamarkin | The Objectivist Forum, August 1986 | Betsy Speicher | Positive |
| The Microsoft Way | Randall Stross | The Intellectual Activist, January 1999 | Jason Crawford | Positive |
| MiG Pilot | John Barron | The Objectivist Forum, August 1980 | Edwin A. Locke | Positive |
| The Nerve of Foley | Frank Spearman | The Intellectual Activist, March 1997 | Andrew Bernstein | Positive |
| Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History | Mary Lefkowitz | The Intellectual Activist, November 1996 | Robert Mayhew | Positive |
| Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand | Leonard Peikoff | The Intellectual Activist, November 1991 | Harry Binswanger | Positive |
| The Ominous Parallels | Leonard Peikoff | The Objectivist Forum, April 1982 | Harry Binswanger | Positive |
| The Ominous Parallels | Leonard Peikoff | The Intellectual Activist, August 23, 1982 | Peter Schwartz | Positive |
| The Passion of Ayn Rand | Barbara Branden | The Intellectual Activist, August 20, 1986 (insert) | Peter Schwartz | Negative |
| Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and His Financial Revolution | Daniel Fischel | The Intellectual Activist, September 1996 | Glenn Woiceshyn | Positive |
| Philosophy: Who Needs It | Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff (editor) | The Intellectual Activist, January 11, 1984 | George Walsh | Positive |
| Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns | Jay H. Lehr (editor) | The Intellectual Activist, September 1992 | Jefferson Ridpath | Positive |
| Return of the Primitive | Ayn Rand; Peter Schwartz (editor) | The Intellectual Activist, June 1999 | Andrew Hazlett | Positive |
| The Shadow University | Alan C. Kors and Harvey R. Silvergate | The Intellectual Activist, June 1999 | Andrew Hazlett | Positive |
| Shane | Jack Schaefer | The Intellectual Activist, May 1997 | Andrew Bernstein | Positive |
| The Soul of a New Machine | Tracy Kidder | The Objectivist Forum, February 1982 | Edwin A. Locke | Positive |
| Terrorism: How the West Can Win | Benjamin Netanyahu (editor) | The Intellectual Activist, October 23, 1986 | Edward Cline | Positive |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | The Intellectual Activist, September 1998 | Edward Cline | Negative |
| The Voice of Reason | Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff (editor) | The Intellectual Activist, December 30, 1988 | Harry Binswanger | Positive |
| The War Against the Atom | Samuel McCracken | The Intellectual Activist, February 8, 1984 | Jennifer Trainer | Positive |
| Whispering Smith | Frank Spearman | The Intellectual Activist, March 1997 | Andrew Bernstein | Positive |
| Yeager - An Autobiography | General Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos | The Objectivist Forum, April 1986 | Edwin A. Locke | Positive |
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