PATERSON’S book was respectfully reviewed but little read. Lane’s attracted less flattering attention. Kirkus Reviews wrote that The Discovery of Freedom bore “the earmarks of long, long thoughts—and hasty execution … choppy, discursive, unorganized, and superficial.”40 After plowing through it, the reviewer concluded, “So what?” Of the three, the one that proved remarkably successful was, of course, Ayn Rand’s.
