Between 1961, when she gave her first talk at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, and 1981, when she gave the last talk of her life in New Orleans, **Ayn Rand** spoke and wrote about topics as varied as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of **Marilyn Monroe**. In **The Voice of Reason** , these pieces, written in the last decades of Rand’s life, are gathered in book form for the first time. With them are five essays by **Leonard Peikoff** , Rand’s longtime associate and literary executor. The work concludes with Peikoff’s epilogue, My Thirty Years With Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir, which answers the question What was Ayn Rand really like? Important reading for all thinking individuals, Rand’s later writings reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. This collection communicates not only Rand’s singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural and political analysis to which it gives rise.