Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand, 1957
A railroad executive fights to keep a collapsing America moving while the nation’s most capable people vanish one by one.
Ayn Rand
Feels like ambition, defiance and freedom.
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Rand's working title for Atlas Shrugged was 'The Strike'; she began it in 1946 and published it in 1957.
What fear actually is, once action has been taken away.
He saw for the first time that he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act. No, he thought, not an assurance of victory—who can ever have that?—only the chance to act, which is all one needs. Now he was contemplating, impersonally and for the first time, the real heart of terror: being delivered to destruction with one’s hands tied behind one’s back. Books by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand, 1943
An architect who will not build anything he doesn't believe in, against a city that rewards charm. The novel that made selfishness an argument.
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