Ayn Rand and the World She Made

Name: Ayn Rand and the World She Made
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Anne C. Heller
ISBN: 9781433271397

Author: Anne C. Heller

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Unabridged: 19 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 10/27/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

Ayn Rand is the author of two phenomenally bestselling ideological novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which have sold over twelve million copies in the United States alone.Through them, she built a rightwing cult following in the late 1950s and became the guiding light of Libertarianism and of White House economic policy in the 1960s and 70s. Her defenses of radical individualism and of selfishness as a "capitalist virtue" have permanently altered the American cultural landscape.

About Anne C. Heller

Anne C. Heller is the author of Ayn Rand and the World She Made. She was a fiction editor at Esquire and the executive editor of the magazine-development group at Condé Nast Publications.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas

Ok, so here I go. I've been kind of dreading this. I'm not a fan of Ayn Rand or her philosophy, but she's relevant and this biography is said to be reasonably objective. It's hard to be objective about objectivism. By the way, Rand didn't invent the commonsense understanding that reality is what it i......more

Goodreads review by Maciek

Who was Ayn Rand? Irregardless if you agree with her philosophy or not, you cannot deny Rand one fact: she was a phenomenon. Born in Russia, Rand emigrated to the U.S. in 1925, when she was just 21. Seeing the skyline of Manhattan for the very first time in her life, she cried. That skyline emphasize......more

Goodreads review by Patrick

Very good biography of Ayn Rand. The author really seems to have taken the time to understand Rand and is MUCH, MUCH better than Jennifer Burns' biography of Ayn Rand that came out the same year, with respect to the portrayals of Rand's ideas and actions on her overall philosophy, including metaphysi......more