lingui5t reviewed The ideas of Ayn Rand by Ronald E. Merrill
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4 stars
Really liked it. Thought it was very fair. Fastest I've read a book in a while.
191 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1991 by Open Court.
Ayn Rand (1905-1982) is known to millions for her blockbuster novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In the 1960s her Objectivist ideas, featuring esthetic romanticism, laissez-faire capitalism, atheism, and the virtue of selfishness, were promoted in an organized movement, which split apart after Rand's falling out with her protege Nathaniel Branden. This debacle threw Rand's growing community of followers into disarray, but she continues to attract readers and to exert a major, if largely subterranean, influence on thinking and policy. - Back cover.
Really liked it. Thought it was very fair. Fastest I've read a book in a while.