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Rand author atlas shrugged
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Both biographers overestimate, Heller more seriously, the literary achievement of their subject, whose intellectual genre fiction puts her in the crackpot pantheon of L. Burns, a professor of history, more ably situates Rand within and against the world of American conservatism. Heller, a journalist and magazine editor, does the better job of dealing with Rand’s early life in Russia and her later personal dramas. Heller’s “Ayn Rand and the World She Made” (Doubleday $35) and Jennifer Burns’s “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right” (Oxford $27.95), have different strengths and a shared weakness. These objective looks at the first Objectivist, Anne C.

rand author atlas shrugged

This month, the first two full-length biographies of her that were not written by disciples or apostates of her movement (some would say cult) are making their appearance. Rand died twenty-seven years ago, at the age of seventy-seven. Readers looking for rhetoric against government-sponsored health care will find a lungful of it in “Atlas Shrugged,” about two hundred and fifty pages (a hop, skip, and a jump by the standards of Randian narrative) before Galt’s broadcast.

rand author atlas shrugged

Sales of “Atlas Shrugged,” never less than robust, have these days been spiking, as commentators like Glenn Beck tout the book as an antidote to the supposed socialism of President Obama’s domestic program. Only a handful become lifetime followers of Objectivism, Rand’s codified philosophy, which holds that reality exists as something concrete and external, not created by God or by a person’s consciousness that emotions derive from ideas and that self-interest rather than altruism is man’s ethical ideal.īut a sizable number of readers seem tempted to return to Galt’s Gulch during leftward lurchings of the body politic. Most readers make their first and last trip to Galt’s Gulch-the hidden-valley paradise of born-again capitalists featured in “Atlas Shrugged,” its solid-gold dollar sign standing like a Maypole-sometime between leaving Middle-earth and packing for college. In her central pronouncement of political belief-the character John Galt’s radio address, which begins on page 1,000 of Rand’s 1957 novel, “Atlas Shrugged”-allowance is made for the state to run an army, a police force, and courts, but that’s it. Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation’s postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail.











Rand author atlas shrugged