Ayn Rand and the World She Made

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.