Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Origins of an Icon of the American Right

by Derek Offord

Book Overview

This book examines the writings of the American novelist Ayn Rand, especially The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), which Rand considered her definitive statement about the need for an unregulated free market in which superior humans could fully realize themselves by living for no-one but themselves. It explores Rand's conception of American identity, which exalted individualism and capitalism, and her solution for saving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350283940
• ISBN13: 9781350283947
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"