youtube.com - 11/2/2009
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Few authors have ever achieved the popularity that the novelist and essayist Ayn Rand (1905-1982) did. With the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943 and A...
nytimes.com - 10/30/2009
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Anne C. Heller’s biography conveys the conviction and
odd charisma of Ayn Rand, whose individualist message is...
still resonant for American conservatives.
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Ayn Rand’s Revenge
slate.com - 11/2/2009
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Ayn Rand is one of America's great mysteries.
She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers,...
who in her spare time wrote lavish torrents of praise for serial killers and the Bernie Madoff-style embezzlers of her day. She opposed ...
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Two biographies of Ayn Rand.
althouse.blogspot.com - 10/31/2009
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"Rand labored for more than two years on
Galt’s radio address near the end of 'Atlas Shrugged'......
'At one point, she stayed inside the apartment, working for 33 days in a row'...." From a review — by TNR editor Adam Kirsch — of "Ayn Rand and the ...
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Ayn Rand "kept going on amphetamines and willpower; the ...
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Reason TV: Ayn Rand’s relevance
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Reason TV: Ayn Rand’s relevance posted at 12:15 pm on November 2, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Reason TV kicks off its Ayn Rand retrospective this week with a look at how suddenly relevant the philosopher and novelist has become. A-list Hollywood stars want to make a movie from Atlas Shrugged , and suddenly “going Galt” has become a popular catchphrase for producer strikes. Who would have guessed that the era of Hope and Change would have produced Rand as a counter-cultural phenomenon? Well, perhaps Rand herself would have foreseen it — and in fact she did, in Atlas Shrugged : Just how much has Rand and her ...
Ayn Rand's Relevance
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REASON TV: Rand-O-Rama: The Long Shelf Life of Ayn Rand’s Legacy.
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REASON TV: Rand-O-Rama: The Long Shelf Life of Ayn Rand’s Legacy.
Reason Continues to Molest Ayn Rand's Corpse.
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Reason.tv: Radicals for Capitalism—Celebrating the Legacy of Ayn Rand
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Radicals for Capitalism is a 10-part series that analyzes the
continuing relevance of Ayn Rand's writing and ideas to
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