Why it endured
Ayn Rand's magnum opus — a novel of ideas in which the world's productive minds go on strike. Atlas Shrugged is the philosophical foundation of libertarianism and objectivism. Consistently voted one of the most influential books in America, second only to the Bible.
What they're saying
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“The heroes of Ayn Rand's books are the people who produce things. That resonated with me deeply.”
Interview
“Atlas Shrugged celebrates the individual's capacity to create. It shaped my thinking about builders and makers.”
Interview
“Atlas Shrugged is the manifesto for entrepreneurs who refuse to accept mediocrity.”
Valuetainment
“Ayn Rand captured something essential about the relationship between producers and society.”
The Ben Shapiro Show
“Since a few people asked - I rated 2/5 not because of the implied philosophy (which I am obviously sympathetic to), but because the actual presentation is overly cartoonish, 10X too long, and highly tedious. 2/5”
“Consider the Ayn Rand phenomenon: her books Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead have been read for more than half a century by millions of people, in spite of, or most likely thanks to, brutally nasty reviews and attempts to discredit her.”
“When the Ayn Rand books were written in the 1950s, it felt like it was crazy. It's so bleak, so pessimistic, I think, or so busted, so broken. When I first read them in the late 80s, it still felt pretty crazy, and then the last decade, it's it's in many ways felt much more correct.”