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Ayn Rand And The American Right
Oxford University Press, USA
October 2009
On Sale: October 19, 2009
Featuring: Ann Ryand
384 pages
ISBN: 0195324870
EAN: 9780195324877
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Worshiped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever
shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and
philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on
government and markets shaped the conservative movement from
its earliest days. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's
private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand's
journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking
reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her
life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political
thought. Goddess of the Market follows Rand from her childhood
in Russia through her meteoric rise from struggling
Hollywood screenwriter to bestselling novelist, including
the writing of her wildly successful The Fountainhead and
Atlas Shrugged. Burns highlights the two facets of Rand's
work that make her a perennial draw for those on the right:
her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of limited
government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience of
life under Communism, and became among the most deeply
enduring of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of
college students and intellectuals, business people and
Republican Party activists, libertarians and conservatives. The book also traces the development of Rand's Objectivist
philosophy and her relationship with Nathaniel Branden, her
closest intellectual partner, with whom she had an explosive
falling out in 1968. This extraordinary book captures the life of the woman who
was a tireless champion of capitalism and the freedom of the
individual, and whose ideas are still devoured by eager
students, debated on blogs, cited by political candidates,
and promoted by corporate tycoons.
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