Beginning in 2007, the sales of a novel more than 50 years old, Atlas Shrugged, began to soar. To those lucky enough to have read it, the reasons were plainly obvious. Ayn Rand predicted the modern United States.
From TARP to Dodd-Frank, to “relief” for those unable to pay their mortgages thanks to their own imprudence, to healthcare being turned into a right that doctors must hand over to patients at costs set by the government, Rand had predicted variations of all of these offenses to rational thinking. Though her novel had long been popular, the fictionally dystopian society Rand had written about long ago had in many ways become real, and readers wanted to understand better the picture drawn by this visionary.
Fast forward to the present, and readers can now access a companion book to Rand’s essential novel.
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