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Ayn Rand And The World She Made
Anne C. Heller
Nan A. Talese
November 2009
On Sale: October 27, 2009
592 pages
ISBN: 0385513992
EAN: 9780385513999
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially
bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels
have been sold in the United States. The books have
attracted three generations of readers, shaped the
foundation of the Libertarian movement, and influenced White
House economic policies throughout the Reagan years and
beyond. A passionate advocate of laissez-faire capitalism
and individual rights, Rand remains a powerful force in the
political perceptions of Americans today. Yet twenty-five
years after her death, her readers know little about her
life.In this seminal biography, Anne C. Heller traces the
controversial author’s life from her childhood in Russia
during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a
screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her
blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that
formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s. Throughout, Heller
reveals previously unknown facts about Rand’s history and
looks at Rand with new research and a fresh perspective.
Based on original research in Russia, dozens of interviews
with Rand’s acquaintances and former acolytes, and
previously unexamined archives of tapes and letters, AYN
RAND AND THE WORLD SHE MADE is a comprehensive and
eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and
improbable figures of the twentieth century.
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