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Atlas Shrugged
by: Ayn Rand

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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780451191144
ISBN: 0451191145
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1088
Publication Date: September 01, 1996
Publisher: Signet
Sales Rank: 3001
Studio: Signet

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Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex.

Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction...to the philosopher who becomes a pirate...to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the lowest track worker in her train tunnels.

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.

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- Cautionary Tale and Eeriely Accurate Prognostication of Economy Collapse
I read that book about seven years ago because I was intensely curious about Ayn Rand and her books. So many people waiting for the bus or riding one seemed to be into her books so I bought a hardback edition and started reading it. I could not stop reading it and turning the pages. When I came to the last page, I was so terribly disappointed that the marvellous story had to come to the end. I WANTED MORE!!!

That book made me see how the material value is determined and how it is diminished by the intensive governmental intervention as well as the corporate interference.

The strong parallel between the society as depicted in the 1957 book and the society in reality is astoundingly accurate. You owe it to yourself to read this book as to understand the financial crisis of 2008 better.

Ayn Rand does understand the economy and its ramification on the modern society so splendidly. ... Read More

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- good book
I only got half way through before life got in the way. It was an interesting read and I'm hoping I can get back to it soon.

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- She (author) nailed it! Written for Today!
A long read, but Ayn Rand tells the story of today's America. Politicians stay in power by redistributing wealth. Achievement is penalized, mediocrity is rewarded, and the country spirals down. Hmmm, sound familiar?

Loved it. Gave copies to all of our six children.

A must read...truly. Especially in this election year.

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- Misunderstood
The very instant you hear someone saying "She thinks so-and-so because in the end it's better for humanity" stop the conversation, because that person has either not read the book, or did not read it closely.

Ayn Rand's philosophy attempts to destroy the common trends in modern and contemporary philosophy who claim either there are no moral absolutes, or there are no absolute truths in reality. The claim is that in both instances there are absolutes, and we can know them.

Yes in this novel the characters are unrealistically good at everything, (good looking, can fly airplanes, incredibly intelligent, etc. etc.) Many people have taken this to be a sign of naivety in her writing. To those people I suggest you look at your premises of what constitutes "naive." Ayn Rand tries repeatedly to show that excellence is something to be loved, not flaws.

This sort of theme is present in all ... Read More

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