Atlas Shrugged
What's it about
What if the world's most brilliant minds—the innovators, scientists, and entrepreneurs you admire—suddenly started to disappear? How would society function without its creators? This summary explores the profound impact when the engine of the world begins to stall, leaving you to question everything. Discover the core principles of Objectivism through a gripping narrative of mystery and industrial collapse. You'll learn why individual achievement and rational self-interest are not just virtues but essential for human progress. Uncover the philosophical secrets behind the strike of the mind and find out who is John Galt.
Meet the author
Ayn Rand was a towering twentieth-century novelist and philosopher whose works, including the monumental Atlas Shrugged, have sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, she witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution firsthand, an experience that fueled her lifelong advocacy for individual freedom and capitalism. Fleeing to America in 1926, she dedicated her life to creating a new moral philosophy, Objectivism, which champions reason, individualism, and the pursuit of one's own happiness as the highest moral purpose.
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