Specialties: Medicine, Free Market Reform of Healthcare, Health Savings Accounts, FDA

After serving seven years in the U.S. Army, Mr. Ralston completed an M.A. in International Relations at the University of Southern California in 1977. He then began a career in newspaper publishing and direct marketing. He has been the circulation director and publisher of The Christian Science Monitor, a radio producer, a national television news business manager, and a book publisher. As an independent direct marketing consultant, his clients included IBM, British Airways, CNN, and the Los Angeles Times. His book Communism: Its Rise and Fall in the 20th Century was published in 1991. He edited the book Why Businessmen Need Philosophy in 1999, and was the revision editor of two books by Ayn Rand in 2005: Three Plays and The Early Ayn Rand. He is the Publishing Manager of the Ayn Rand Institute.

Books

• Communism: Its Rise and Fall in the 20th Century

• Essays on Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” (contributing author)

• Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” (contributing author)

• Essays on Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” (contributing author)

• Essays on Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” (contributing author)

• Why Businessmen Need Philosophy (editor)

Articles