As I was reading the interviews in 100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand, lyrics from the Comden and Green song, “Just in time. I found you just in time” kept running through my head.

Oral historian Scott McConnell contacted movie stars, producers, writers, philosophers, brigadier generals, artists, photographers, and others whose lives touched that of author Ayn Rand. Knowing that some of these best and brightest are no longer with us (Mickey Spillane, Robert Stack, Patricia Neal, Julius Shulman, and Louis Rukeyser, to name a few) it becomes woefully evident that McConnell did, indeed, speak to many of them … just in time.

Fortunately, both for our sense of continuity and my own pleasure in seeing the sun come up every morning, some of the people you will meet in 100 Voices (myself included) are still above ground. And so, you will learn fascinating things about Ayn Rand from such vibrant souls as Raquel Welch, movie star; Albert S. Ruddy, Academy Award winning producer; Mike Wallace, TV journalist; Alvin Toffler, author; and Malcolm Fraser, former prime minister of Australia.