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    <![CDATA[The Passion of Ayn Rand]]>
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    <![CDATA[Barbara Branden, who knew the legendary writer for 19 years, provides a consummate portrait of this private and complex woman. Highly perceptive and objective, this is the only existing biography of one of the 20th century's most remarkable and controversial figures.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[_The Passion of Ayn Rand_ is fascinating. I remember reading Rand's The Fountainhead when I was eighteen and though I liked Howard Roark's and Dominique Francon's erotically charged relationship and the symbolic values that both characters represent, I was too young to appreciate the economy of word...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1911560">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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