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|title = It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand
|image = It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand.jpg
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|author = [[Jerome Tuccille]]
|publisher = Stein and Day
|published = 1971
|pages = 192
|isbn = 0-8128-1402-9
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'''''It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand''''' is a satirical memoir by American libertarian political activist [[Jerome Tuccille]]. It was first published by Stein and Day in 1971. The title refers to novelist and philosopher [[Ayn Rand]], whose work introduced Tuccille and other activists to libertarian ideas.<ref name="NYTobit">{{cite news |first=William |last=Grimes |title=Jerome Tuccille, Libertarian Author and Trump Biographer, Dies at 79 |date=February 24, 2017 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/books/jerome-tuccille-dead.html |access-date=September 25, 2018 |work=The New York Times}}</ref>

In a review of the literature about Rand, literary scholar Mimi Reisel Gladstein complimented Tuccille for his humor, especially in his satire of Rand's followers in the [[Objectivist movement]]. She also said that most of the book is not about Rand and instead focuses on other areas of right-wing politics.<ref>{{cite book |title=The New Ayn Rand Companion |last=Gladstein |first=Mimi Reisel |location=Westport, Connecticut |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1999 |isbn=0-313-30321-5 |oclc=40359365 |page=100}}</ref> [[Roy Childs]] reviewed the book in ''[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand |first=Roy |last=Childs, Jr. |work=Reason |date=June–July 1972 |url=http://reason.com/archives/1972/06/01/it-usually-begins-with-ayn-ran}}</ref> Martin Morse Wooster did a retrospective on it in ''[[The American Enterprise]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Con-Fusion |first=Martin Morse |last=Wooster |work=The American Enterprise |date=November 1998 |page=84}}</ref>

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