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Goddess of the Market - Ayn Rand and the American Right (Hardcover, New)
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Goddess of the Market - Ayn Rand and the American Right (Hardcover, New)
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Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever
shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher
Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and
markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days.
Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the
original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns
offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure,
examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative
political thought.
Goddess of the Market follows Rand from her childhood in Russia
through her meteoric rise from struggling Hollywood screenwriter to
bestselling novelist, including the writing of her wildly
successful The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Burns highlights
the two facets of Rand's work that make her a perennial draw for
those on the right: her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of
limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience
of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring
of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students
and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists,
libertarians and conservatives. The book also traces the
development of Rand's Objectivist philosophy and her relationship
with Nathaniel Branden, her closest intellectual partner, with whom
she had an explosive falling out in 1968.
One of the Denver Post's Great Reads of 2009
One of Bloomberg News's Top Nonfiction Books of 2009
"Excellent."
--Time magazine
"A terrific book--a serious consideration of Rand's ideas, and her
role in the conservative movement of the past three quarters of a
century."
--The American Thinker
"A wonderful book: beautifully written, completely balanced,
extensively researched. The match between author and subject is so
perfect that one might believe that the author was chosen by the
gods to write this book. She has sympathy and affection for her
subject but treats her as a human being, with no attempt to cover
up the foibles."
--Mises Economics Blog
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