Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand [50th Anniversary Edition]

Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's landmark novel, a effective philosophical and political exploration of individualism, capitalism, and the role of government in society. Set in a dystopian future wherein the United States is collapsing beneath the burden of immoderate paperwork, collectivism, and altruism, the novel asks a essential question: What happens whilst the women and men who force the arenas development, the thinkers, creators, and innovators, decide to prevent?

The tale follows Dagny Taggart, a determined and awesome railroad executive, and Hank Rearden, a self-made industrialist, as they war against a society that punishes success and rewards mediocrity. As the nation's nice and brightest begin to mysteriously disappear, Dagny and Rearden find themselves grappling with the crumble of civilization itself, struggling to maintain on to their ideas and agencies in a global that seems reason on destroying them.

ISBN: 9780451191144

Pages: 1079

Paperback

Signet Books, 1996

Good condition; Pages tanned; cover has some small creases

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