Ayn Rand and the world she made
By: Anne Conover Heller.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 567
ISBN-13: 9780385513999
Subjects: Rand, Ayn; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Philosophers -- United States -- Biography; Objectivism (Philosophy)
Genres: Biography.
Description: A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before the Revolution : 1905-1917; title: Looters : 1917-1925; title: Freedom to think : 1926-1934; title: We are not like our brothers : 1934-1938; title: The Fountainhead : 1936-1941; title: The soul of an individualist : 1939-1942; title: Money : 1943; title: Fame : 1943-1946; title: The top and the bottom : 1946-1949; title: The means and the end : 1950-1953; title: The immovable mover : 1953-1957; title: Atlas shrugged : 1957; title: The public philosopher : 1958-1963; title: Account overdrawn : 1962-1967; title: Either/or (the break) : 1967-1968; title: In the name of the best within us : 1969-1982; title: Afterword