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Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. It is her longest novel, the fourth and final one published during her lifetime, and the one she considered her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing. [1] She described the theme of Atlas Shrugged as "the role of man's mind in existence" and it includes elements of science fiction, mystery and ...
For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand is a 1961 work by the philosopher Ayn Rand.It is her first long non-fiction book. Much of the material consists of excerpts from Rand's novels, supplemented by a long title essay that focuses on the history of philosophy.
In Ayn Rand's 1957 pro-capitalist novel Atlas Shrugged, a large and profitable motor company adopted this slogan as its method for determining employee compensation. The system quickly fell prey to corruption and greed, forcing the most capable employees to work overtime in order to satisfy the needs of the least competent and to funnel money ...
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's most famous -- and some say most ponderous -- novel may soon become a movie. However, objectivists, libertarians and assorted Rand fans might want to hold off on taking ...
Should you happen to be at the meme end of lit-awareness (no judgment, of course), just to fill you in: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged (1957) is an almost 1,200-page novel about a handful of proud ...
A brief review in The Washington Post called it a "valuable sourcebook" for those interested in Rand. [11] In The New York Times Book Review, conservative writer David Brooks offered his "harsh assessment" that the insights Rand had about the dangers of collectivism were "made absurd only by the philosophy she piled on top of it." For aspiring ...
The idea of creating a collection of Rand's essays initially came from Bennett Cerf of Random House, who had published two of Rand's previous books, Atlas Shrugged and For the New Intellectual. Rand proposed a collection of articles to be titled The Fascist New Frontier , after a Ford Hall Forum speech she had given criticizing the views of ...
Heller was a journalist who first heard of Rand while working as a magazine editor. Writer Suze Orman gave Heller a copy of an excerpt from Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged in which a character explains Rand's views on money. Heller's interest was piqued by Rand's unusual viewpoint, and she subsequently read extensively from Rand's other writings.