Atlas Revisited

Hello blog readers! I hope you’ve gotten your shopping done, but if you’re like me, there’s always something else left to get. Books can make for great gifts, and I’m writing today to tip you off to a new biography of Ayn Rand by Anne C. Heller. Whatever your opinion of Rand’s works, she remains an important figure to know. The New York Times Book Review called her a “defining libertarian voice in the American right.” In Heller’s biography, Rand comes through as a woman with her own contradictions, but also a woman with determination, charm, and “odd charisma.” Adam Kirsch wrote, “Heller is dealing with a human being, and one with more than her share of human failings....” Of course, if you’re not familiar with Rand or her philosophies, including those found in her works The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, I can recommend our own Ayn Rand For Beginners. This introduction to Ayn Rand includes not only a biographical account, but major themes and characters from her two most important works, in addition to an exploration of the philosophies that have made her characters, and her, controversial even decades after her death. You can even pick up both and give them as a set!

Thanks again for stopping by, and in case we don’t see each other again soon, Happy Holidays to you and yours!