Goddess of the Market
Ayn Rand and the American Right
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 January 2010
- ISBN 9780195324877
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 236x163x33 mm
- Weight 748 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 black and white halftones 0
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Long description:
Worshipped 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.
Burns has crafted a superb biography that traces her influence, places Rand in historical context, avoids both condemnation and hagiography, and undercuts the view, fostered by Rand herself, that she was a self-created genius.
Table of Contents:
I. The Education of Ayn Rand, 1905-1943
From Russia to Roosevelt
Individualists of the World, Unite!
A New Credo of Freedom
II. From Novelist to Philosopher, 1944-1957
. The Real Root of Evil
. A Round Universe
III. John Galt Speaking, 1957-1968
. Big Sister is Watching You
. Radicals for Capitalism
. Love is Exception Making
IV. Coda: 1968 and Everything After
. It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand
The Ayn Rand School for Tots
