Garbage and Gravitas
Garbage and Gravitas Ayn Rand was a melodramatist of the moral life: the battle is between the producer and the moochers, and it must end in life or death. By Corey Robin MAY 20, 2010 S t. Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both. Many other people have thought so too. In 1998 readers responding to a Modern Library poll identified Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead as the two greatest novels of the twentieth century—surpassing Ulysses , To the Lighthouse and Invisible Man . In 1991 a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club found that with the exception of the Bible, no book has influenced more American readers than Atlas Shrugged . Ayn Rand and the World She Made By Anne C. Heller. Buy this book Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right ...