Harold Laski
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Harold Joseph Laski was an English political theorist and economist. He was active in politics and served as the chairman of the British Labour Party from 1945 to 1946 and was a professor at the Londo
Harold J. Laski 1954
Laski c. 1930s
Laski speaks before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 1938
Blue plaque, 5 Addison Bridge Place, West Kensington, London
The Fountainhead
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The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-born American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success. The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an intransigent young architect who battles again
Harold Laski
…new Labour Government, which was no more comfortable with Harold Laski than was the Peronist Movement with its left wing." Laski was an inspiration for Ellsworth Toohey, the antagonist in Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead (1943). The posthumously published Journals of Ayn Rand, edited by David Harriman, include a…
Cover of the first edition
Ayn Rand in 1943
In writing the character of Howard Roark, Rand was inspired by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Patricia Neal played Dominique Francon in the film adaptation.