Ayn Rand: Still spouting.(philosopher, author)
Economist (US), The, November, 1999
"AYN RAND changed my life." So goes the phrase that, time and again, begins the story of how reading the 1,100-page saga, "Atlas Shrugged", put the world into perspective for a teenager in crisis. "Atlas Shrugged" was published in 1957 and Rand's other saga, "The Fountainhead", in 1943. Yet the author, the precocious dark-eyed daughter of a pharmacist, born Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum in St Petersburg in 1905, remains as popular as ever.
In the past two years she has been honoured with a long worshipful documentary, a television film about her seduction of a young follower, a $1m auction of her memorabilia, and the issue of an American postage stamp bearing her likeness--although, given half the chance, she might well have blown up a post office in the name of...
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