Goddess of the Market : Ayn Rand and the American Right.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: THE EDUCATION OF AYN RAND, 1905 - 1943 -- 1. From Russia to Roosevelt -- 2. Individualists of the World, Unite! -- 3. A New Credo of Freedom -- PART II: FROM NOVELIST TO PHILOSOPHER, 1944 - 1957 -- 4. The Real Root of Evil -- 5. A Round Universe -- PART III: WHO IS JOHN GALT? 1957 - 1968 -- 6. Big Sister Is Watching You -- 7. Radicals for Capitalism -- 8. Love Is Exception Making -- PART I V: LEGACIES -- 9. It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand -- Epilogue: Ayn Rand in American Memory -- Acknowledgments -- Essay on Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought. Burns highlights the two facets of Rand's work that make her a perennial draw for those on the right: her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists, libertarians and conservatives. The book also traces the development of Rand's Objectivist philosophy and her relationship with Nathaniel Branden.

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