Atlas Shrugged

New York: Random House, 1957.

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Hardcover. First edition, first issue in first issue dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown else fine in about near fine dustwrapper with tiny spot on rear jacket, touch of toning and bit of wear at the crown and nick to the front flap. Still a remarkably fresh and bright copy of this modern classic. A recent study of Rand's cultural legacy concluded that no single work of the 20th Century had influenced more individual readers than this objectivist allegory. Additionally, *Harper's Index* reports that 12% of all Playboy Playmates since 1959 claimed either this or Rand's *The Fountainhead* as their favorite book, although our twenty years of trying to use copies as bait continue to prove fruitless. A beautiful copy.

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Item #395713 Atlas Shrugged. Ayn RAND.

Ayn Rand
birth name: Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum
born: 2/2/1905
died: 3/6/1982

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Russian-born American writer who, in novels noted for their commercial success, presented her philosophy of objectivism, which held that all real achievement is the product of individual ability and effort, that laissez-faire capitalism is most congenial to the exercise of talent, and that selfishness is a virtue, altruism a vice. Her reversal of the traditional Judeo-Christian ethic won her a cult of followers. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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