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An epic masterpiece.
Set in a near-future U.S.A., Ayn Rand’s thrilling masterpiece features the mysterious disappearance of the top innovators and industrialists—and demonstrates a new moral philosophy: the morality of rational self-interest.
Why Businessmen Need Philosophy
The capitalist’s guide to the ideas behind Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
Essays on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
This is the first scholarly study of Atlas Shrugged, covering the historical, literary, and philosophical aspects of Ayn Rand’s magnum opus. Topics include: the novel’s creation, publication, and reception; its nature as a romantic novel; and its presentation of a radical new philosophy.
Books About Rand
Both Ayn Rand’s life and work have been the subject of countless books, essays and articles. The following features some of the better works about her.
Letters of Ayn Rand (Edited by Michael S. Berliner)
Discover the “personal” Ayn Rand in this wondrous collection of her letters. Read what she wrote to an amazing array of people—from Barry Goldwater, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mickey Spillane, to Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Stack and Cecil B. DeMille. Whether she is writing to philosophers, artists, Hollywood celebrities, family members, captains of industry or her admiring fans, her unmistakable style and character are always in evidence.
Journals of Ayn Rand (Edited by David Harriman)
Ayn Rand was an endless fount of brilliantly original ideas. This book is a collection of her exploratory (and, occasionally, final) thoughts, from 1927 through the 1960s, on a variety of subjects.
Ayn Rand (2004) (A biography by Jeff Britting)
Ayn Rand made a profound impact both as a philosopher who defined a new philosophic system, Objectivism, and as a novelist of penetrating insight and vision. Her novels are based on heroic ideals, demonstrating her famous maxim (from which she drew the title of her first best-seller) that, “man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.” The photos and illustrations in this volume have been hand-selected from the Ayn Rand Archives, and most have never been published.
My Thirty Years with Ayn Rand (By Leonard Peikoff in The Voice of Reason)
Dr. Peikoff offers moving insights into the real Ayn Rand—the thinker, the artist, the teacher, the passionate valuer of the best within man.
Facets of Ayn Rand (Memoirs by Mary Ann Sures and Charles Sures)
Prepared by two of her longtime friends, these memoirs (in interview form) of their personal relationships with Ayn Rand reveal many intriguing facets of their subject.
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (A documentary DVD by Michael Paxton)
The first authorized film to look at the life and work of Ayn Rand.
