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The Journals of Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff

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Editorial Review:

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 us.

Rand 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 conveyy 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 descriptions 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.

Ayn Rand Reader

Ayn Rand

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Excellent Introduction to Ayn Rand 5 out of 5 stars.
63 of 68 people found this review helpful.

For those of you who are honestly interested in learning about Ayn Rand, I fully recommend this book as an introduction to her philosophy.

It's very disheartening to see that Ayn Rand detractors have overwhelmed most of the review boards for her books.

If you read this book, please keep in mind several things that its detractors have not:

1. Ayn Rand's philosophy is an integrated system of looking at life and reality. It distorts her view when you grab one of her ideas and take it out of context. Before you pass judgment on Ayn Rand, please know what you are talking about and learn the fundamentals of her philosophy.

2. You have to be honest to learn from Ayn Rand. Reading her books won't dislodge the falsehoods from your mind, nor cram the truth into your brain. She has created a roadmap for learning the ideal philosophy, but YOU have to look at reality and learn it yourself. Because of this, there are people who have distorted her ideas drastically. Please look at what she has written to learn about her, NOT what others interpret her to be.

That's why this book is so important in clearing up the chaos surrounding Ayn Rand. So many people have misinterpreted her. Here you can get the information firsthand. In her own words.

Editorial Review:

The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. Containing excerpts from all her novels--including Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, and We The Living--The Ayn Rand Reader is a perfect introduction for those who have never read Rand, and provides teachers with an excellent guide to the basics of her viewpoint.

Anthem

Ayn Rand

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He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: he had stood forth from the mindless human herd. He was a man alone. Ayn Rand’s classic tale of a future dark age of the great “We,” in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values, anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

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This book made an impact on me! 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

In case this is your first encounter with this book, It is a fresh story but a continuation to Ayn Rand's philosophy that started out with books like "We the living" where she new something was wrong but could not put her finger on it. She progressed to books as "The Fountainhead" where she could describe the problem quite well. Now in "Atlas Shrugged she has come up with a plausible answer to the problem. In essence your head can work without your hands yet your hands can not work without your head.
The story is not unique but it still holds you attention. The world is becoming more socialized and it is harder for individuals to make an impact without having a multitude of parasites on their back. Some chose to fight, others chose to ignore, some do not have a clue as to what is happening. The world seems to be gearing down is just coincidence or is there some one taking a hand in it. "Who is John Galt?"
I can tell you of my experience with the book. I must have been a late bloomer or just unlucky, because I did not come across "Atlas shrugged" until I was 20 years old. I was in the military and needed some reading material. My younger sister sent me the book. It looks just a little thick to me but I started reading, and reading and reading. I do not know if it was the story or the clarity of thought. Now I saw everything in a new or different light. It felt weird to see the newspapers and politics paralleling the book.
I was in New York (West Point) at the time and three things stood out to this day. The was a public service announcement on the TV "The law says that an apartment owner can not charge more than 30% of what you make" and at the same time the apartment buildings were closing down. The postal carriers went on strike and the military had to deliver the mail. That winter the snowplow drivers went on strike. When the strike was over the snowplows were missing. They found them the next summer in an empty lot.
There is nothing quite as convincing as watching the world and book parallel. I have mellowed out some sense then. However, I really think that this book should be read by high school where it would have maximum impact of one's train of thought.

Three Plays

Ayn Rand

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Great plays 5 out of 5 stars.
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Any Rand has been overlooked the past few years - she no longer appears on reading lists and I dont think her philosophy is covered in college courses. That is too bad - she is a great writer and her philosophies are worth exploring. I did not know she wrote plays, so I was surprised to find this book. I read the first of three, entitled Night of January 16th. It is a great play with an interesting twist. She wrote it so when it is performed, 12 people from the audience become the jury - their desicion affects the outcome of the play. I think that is a great idea and I wish someone would produce her work. I recommend this to anyone who has read anythig by Rand and is looking for some new material to study. Her writing is, as always, on point and her ablility to make a play needs to be explored more often. I hope more people read it and take a liking to her novels.

Editorial Review:

Published together for the first time are three of Ayn Rand's most compelling stage plays. The courtroom drama Night of January 16th, famous for its open-ended verdict, is presented here in its definitive text. Also included are two of Rand's unproduced plays, Think Twice, a clever philosophical murder mystery, and Ideal, a bitter indictment of people's willingness to betray their highest values-symbolized by a Hollywood goddess suspected of a crime.

La Rebelion de Atlas

Ayn Rand

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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Ayn Rand

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The Early Ayn Rand: Revised Edition: A Selection From Her Unpublished Fiction

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Several quick reads as an Ayn Rand Appetizer or a dessert after The Fountainhead 5 out of 5 stars.
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The stories in this book all have the same qualities as the books Ayn Rand wrote during her mature years: that life can and should be an adventure ("Good Copy"), that men have a great capacity for heroism ("Red Pawn"), that no man can escape the consequences of his philosophy ("Think Twice"). If you've been curious about Ayn Rand but hesitant to take on reading one of her large books (Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead) then try reading a couple of these short stories. If you enjoy them, you probably won't be able to wait to get started reading one of her books! If you've already enjoyed reading one of her books, these stories will give you a few more hours to spend with her and her ideas.

Editorial Review:

This remarkable, newly revised collection of Ayn Rand's early fiction-including her previously unpublished short story The Night King-ranges from beginner's exercises to excerpts from early versions of We the Living and The Fountainhead.

Anthem

Ayn Rand

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Singing Anthem's praises 5 out of 5 stars.
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I was given the book "Anthem", by Ann Rand, as a gift by my girl friend while we were both still seniors in High School. Up until that time I had been a voracious reader, but of books that entertained or were part of the Required Reading List. I can't remember a book that had stimulated me the way "Anthem" did, and at the time I wasn't even sure why it had made such an impression on me. At first the story didn't strike me as anything more than a titilating anti-establishment tale, a subject that was being knocked about with a lot of frequency at the time (read the 60s). Interestingly, it was my History class that allowed a light to come on in my understanding of Rand's story and when the story is placed in the context of the world in the 1920s and 30s, I saw the characters in a much different way. The story became an indepth perspective of social structuring that could have existed if history had taken a different turn during the time that Rand had written her book. Objectivism became a new word and my innocent/naive understanding of the battle over idealistic control of our lives took on a more serious comprehension of the consequences of just such ignorance. Rand's use of metaphoric titles in place of names made it easy to follow the process that could generate such a world where individuallity was akin to treason against the collective will. The use of the discovery of light as the vehicle of defiance was not lost on my young mind as the perfect symbolic form of discovering enlightenment. That the protagonists were young and of low social status was, I thought, highly indicative of the view at the time that rebellion and change in our society, could only come from such people, for that is where the seeds of reform can only germinate. Such thinking has since been debunked, but the core determination that individual freedoms, and thus human progression, cannot exist under a prohibitive collective ideology such as Communism or most forms of Socialism will always be true. Rand was staunchly anti-communist. Heady stuff for a young mind, but Rand's story makes the perfect pitch for what could happen if such ideologies prevailed. I found myself bonding with the characters and, to me, that is the mark of a great writer. Rand's "Anthem" is a truely great primer for anyone who wishes to tackle social issues, because first you must understand why you, as an individual, have the ability to even think about doing so. And, yes, that ability is not automatic or a guaranteed right. It's hard fought for, jealously guarded, and requires "eternal vigilance" to maintain.

Ayn Rand : Atlas Shrugged, the Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

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