| Ayn Rand and the World She Made Contributor(s): Heller, Anne C. (Author), Dunne, Bernadette (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1433271346 ISBN-13: 9781433271342 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $110.70 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: This comprehensive and revealing biography examines the life of Ayn Rand, whose ideological novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, have permanently altered the American cultural and economic landscapes. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.85" H x 7.2" W x 6.08" (1.12 lbs) 16 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ayn Rand is best known as the author of two phenomenally best-selling ideological novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which have sold over twelve million copies in the United States alone. Through them, she built a cult following in the late 1950s and became the guiding light of Libertarianism and of White House economic policy in the 1960s and '70s. Her defenses of radical individualism and of selfishness as a "capitalist virtue" have permanently altered the American cultural landscape. Anne Conover Heller traveled to Russia to discover Rand's Russian and Jewish roots and her misunderstood youth, interview surviving acquaintances, and unearth new archival material. The result is the most comprehensive, revealing and unbiased biography of one of the most important figures of the twentieth century. |
Contributor Bio(s): Heller, Anne C.: - Anne Conover Heller has written for such publications as Vogue, Mademoiselle, TriQuarterly, and Esquire. She is the former fiction editor of Esquire and Redbook and a former executive editor at Conde Nast Publications. Dunne, Bernadette: -Bernadette Dunne is the winner of more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway. |