Quicklet: Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

by Jason Malcolm Stewart

It’s not surprising that one of the of the twentieth century’s most enduring and controversial figures, Ayn Rand, produced one of the twentieth century’s most enduring and controversial books, Atlas Shrugged. In the novel’s fifty-plus years of existence, Atlas Shrugged has been both lauded and vilified, credited with creating a new paradigm of social and political thought by supporters and denounced by detractors as a re-hashed, reactionary appeal to selfishness and greed.

Rand, in the course of her life as a writer, intellectual and political theorist, embraced all of these labels, whether from critic or supporter alike. Fittingly, her novel is infused with the same elusive qualities. Whether loved or hated, it is because of this clash of ideas that Atlas Shrugged has endured to take its place with the important novels of the last century.

39 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 10, 2012

About the author

Jason Malcolm Stewart is a Northern California-based public
relations/marketing professional. He holds degrees in Political
Science and Comparative Religion, but can have a conversation without starting a small war. When he's not writing or reading, you can find him riding around with something radioactive in his trunk.

Reviews

[Jason Stewart · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is great!