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Ayn Rand and the world she made / Anne C. Heller.

Heller, Anne Conover.
2009
813.52 R186Yh 2009
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Title
Ayn Rand and the world she made / Anne C. Heller.
Author
Heller, Anne Conover.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780385513999 (alk. paper)
0385513992 (alk. paper)
Imprint
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 567 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
813.52 R186Yh 2009
System Control No.
(OCoLC)229027437
(OCoLC)229027437
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-540) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Before the Revolution : 1905-1917
Looters : 1917-1925
Freedom to think : 1926-1934
We are not like our brothers : 1934-1938
The Fountainhead : 1936-1941
The soul of an individualist : 1939-1942
Money : 1943
Fame : 1943-1946
The top and the bottom : 1946-1949
The means and the end : 1950-1953
The immovable mover : 1953-1957
Atlas shrugged : 1957
The public philosopher : 1958-1963
Account overdrawn : 1962-1967
Either/or (the break) : 1967-1968
In the name of the best within us : 1969-1982.
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