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Genre/Form: | Science fiction American fiction Fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ayn Rand |
ISBN: | 9780452286368 0452286360 0451191145 9780451191144 |
OCLC Number: | 287605 |
Description: | 1168 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Non-contradiction -- The theme -- The chain -- The top and the bottom -- The immovable movers -- The climax of the D'Anconias -- The non-commercial -- The exploiters and the exploited -- The John Galt line -- The sacred and the profane -- Wyatt's torch -- Either-or -- The man who belonged on earth -- The aristocracy of pull -- White blackmail -- The sanction of the victim -- Account overdrawn -- Miracle metal -- The moratorium on brains -- By our love -- The face without pain or fear of guilt -- The sign of the dollar -- A is A -- Atlantis -- The utopia of greed -- Anti-greed -- Anti-life -- Their brothers' keepers -- The concerto of deliverance -- "This is John Galt speaking" -- The egoist -- The generator -- In the name of the best within us. |
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Presents a story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex. This novel presents a 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.
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An American must read
Schools should put it on their requried reading list. Learn what happens when those generating all the jobs leave the scene.
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Shrug This One Off
"Atlas Shrugged" is Ayn Rand's philosophy poorly disguised as a novel. Readers who get through the 1000+ page novel deserve a prize—perhaps a "lifetime achievement award"—as compensation for getting so little pleasure.The story centers on Dagny Taggert, granddaughter of the founder of Taggert Transportation...
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"Atlas Shrugged" is Ayn Rand's philosophy poorly disguised as a novel. Readers who get through the 1000+ page novel deserve a prize—perhaps a "lifetime achievement award"—as compensation for getting so little pleasure.The story centers on Dagny Taggert, granddaughter of the founder of Taggert Transportation and the brains behind its 20th century operation. Dagny is determined to keep her trains running profitably despite socialistic policies seemingly designed to stamp out every successful business. As one industrialist after another is taxed out of existence and disappears, Dagny hangs on—and Rand drones on and on.Rand makes the shortcomings of socialism real, but she fails to make a case that profit motive produces morality. In her desire to show the triumph of rationality, she fails to account for the presence of the irrational, despoiling, misery-making element in society. In her eagerness to prove justice superior to love, she degrades love to either sex or pity. Characters' facial features, physical settings, even Dagny's evening gowns come out of a trunk Rand keeps for dressing her characters: I remember them from "The Fountainhead". In the hands of a Taylor Caldwell or Nevil Shute, this novel could be spell-binding. Rand makes it numbing.©2007 Linda Gorton Aragoni
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