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Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand Biography

The Fountainhead

For the New Intellectual

Letters of Ayn Rand

The Virtue of Selfishness

 


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From Wikipedia
Ayn Rand, (February 2, 1905 – March 6, 1982), born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher, best known for developing Objectivism and for writing the novels We the Living, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, and the novella Anthem. A broadly influential figure in post-WWII America, her work attracted both enthusiastic admiration and scathing denunciations. Rand's writing emphasizes the philosophic concepts of Metaphysics (objective reality), Epistemology (reason) and Ethics (rational egoism). Politically, she was a proponent of laissez-faire capitalism and a staunch defender of individual rights. She believed in Government's right to exist only insofar that it protected an individual's right to his life, liberty and property. (more)


Books by Ayn Rand

Capitalism

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Videos on Ayn Rand

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Articles on Ayn Rand


Ayn Rand and Objectivism

The Most Successful Business Book Ever
by Yaron Brook

Sex! Power! Politics! Money!
If only Ayn Rand's novels were as filmable as her life
by Robert Fulford

Hollywood tries 'Atlas
Shrugged' again

by Washington Times

On Leading the Cheers for No.1
The first right on earth is the right of the ego.
— Ayn Rand
With her usual authoritarian sweep, Author Ayn Rand strikes a basic blow for her consistent dogma of individualism. Though she is more a cult figure than a popular philosopher, her words mirror an attitude that is becoming more and more common in the U.S., particularly among public figures.
by Frank Trippett


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