Includes Introduction by Leonard Peikoff About the Author ' and Reader's Guide. New condition color illustrated softcover wraps. Peikoff calls 'Ayn Rand's masterwork.' - from the rear outer cover. This volume will be eagerly welcomed by all admirers of what Dr. This anniversary edition of Atlas Shrugged, celebrating the enduring legacy of its author, features an introduction by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, and a Reader's Guide to her writings and philosophy. This is the book that has made her not only one of the most popular novelists of modern times, but also one of its most influential and controversial thinkers. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query 'Who is John Galt?' Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. It is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder - and rebirth - of man's spirit.

Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is unlike any other book you have ever read. 'The astounding story of a man who said that he wold stop the motor of the world - and did. Includes Preliminary Page entitled: Who Moves the World? Dedication Introduction by Leonard Peikoff About the Author and a Rear Section entitled: Reader's Guide to the Writings and Philosophy of Ayn Rand consisting of: About Ayn Rand, The Essentials of Objectivism, Writings of Ayn Rand, Books About Ayn Rand and Objectivism, and About the Ayn Rand Institute. Atlas Shrugged, a modern classic and Rand s most extensive statement of Objectivism her groundbreaking philosophy offers the reader the spectacle of human greatness, depicted with all the poetry and power of one of the twentieth century s leading artists. You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy.why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction.why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph.why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill. Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this book. About the book: Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand,s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American Read.

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