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Ayn Rand (Author),
Leonard Peikoff (Author),
David Harriman (Editor)
Rarely has a writer and thinker of the stature of
Ayn Rand afforded us access to her most intimate thoughts and feelings. From
Journals of Ayn Rand, we gain an invaluable new understanding and appreciation of the woman, the artist, and the philosopher, and of the enduring legacy she has left comes vibrantly to life as an untried screenwriter in Hollywood, creating stories that reflect her youthful vision of the world. We see her painful memories of communist Russia and her struggles to convey them in
We the Living. Most fascinating is the intricate, step-by-step process through which she created the plots and characters of her two masterworks,
The Fountainhead and
Atlas Shrugged, and the years of painstaking research that imbued the novels with their powerful authenticity. Complete with reflections on her legendary screenplay concerning the making of the atomic bomb and tantalizing s of projects cut short by her death,
Journals of Ayn Rand illuminates the mind and heart of an extraordinary woman as no biography or memoir ever could. On these vivid pages,
Ayn Rand lives.
Author Biography
Born February 2, 1905,
Ayn Rand published her first novel, We the Living, in 1936. Anthem followed in 1938. It was with the publication of The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) that she achieved her spectacular success. Rand’s unique philosophy, Objectivism, has gained a worldwide audience. The fundamentals of her philosophy are put forth in three nonfiction books, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, The Virtues of Selfishness, and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. They are all available in Signet editions, as is the magnificent statement of her artistic credo, The Romantic Manifesto.
Number of Pages: 752Dimensions: 1.64 x 9.01 x 6.04 INPublication Date: August 01, 1999
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