"Novelist Ayn Rand talks with Wallace about the personal philosophy underpinning her books The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, as well as the economy, welfare, the American political system, and taxes."

Originally broadcast 1959.

Posted with permission of The Mike Wallace Interview Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, and Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

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