Title: Goddess of the market
First published: 2009
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. - Publisher.
Subjects: Biography, History, Politics and government, American Novelists, Political culture, Criticism and interpretation, American Women novelists, Political and social views, Philosophers, Right and left (Political science), Comunicacion humano-animal, Training, Animales, Perros, Comunicacion, Human-animal communication, Adriestamiento, Behavior, Conducta, Dogs, Authors, american, Women authors, Philosophers, united states, History, modern, 20th century, Authors, biography, Philosophers, biography, United states, politics and government, 1945-1989, Historia, Politisk kultur
Places: United States
People: Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
Time periods: 20th century, 1945-1989
LC classification: PS3535.A547 Z587 2009