2009, ISBN: 9780385513999

New York: Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 2009. Advanced Reading Copy. Velobound. Good. xvi, 540, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Partial Bibliography. Anne C. Heller is a magazine editor … Mehr…

New York: Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 2009. Advanced Reading Copy. Velobound. Good. xvi, 540, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Partial Bibliography. Anne C. Heller is a magazine editor and journalist and the author of Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times and Ayn Rand and the World She Made. She is a former managing editor of The Antioch Review, fiction editor of Esquire and Redbook, and executive editor of the magazine development group at Condé Nast Publications.She has been a visiting professor of literature at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the New York University Biographers Seminar and of Biographers International Organization. Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935-1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead.In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own magazines and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982. Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge, and rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism, and rejected altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral, and opposed collectivism and statism as well as anarchism, and instead supported laissez-faire capitalism, which she defined as the system based on recognizing individual rights. In art, Rand promoted romantic realism. She was sharply critical of most philosophers and philosophical traditions known to her, except for Aristotle and some Aristotelians, and classical liberals.Literary critics received Rand's fiction with mixed reviews, and academia generally ignored or rejected her philosophy, though academic interest has increased in recent decades. The Objectivist movement attempts to spread her ideas, both to the public and in academic settings. She has been a significant influence among libertarians and American conservatives.Ayn Rand and the World She Made is widely acknowledged to be the first complete and impartial biography of one of the most significant, controversial, and underexamined figures of the twentieth century, a woman whose ideals of radical individualism, limited government, and heroic self-restraint, expressed in her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, have permanently altered the American cultural and political landscape.As many of you already know, the book is based on original archival research in Russia, scores of interviews with Rand's former colleagues and acolytes, and previously unexamined collections of tapes and letters. In the words of The Wall Street Journal, Ayn Rand and the World She Made is "&hellip;a thoroughly researched, immensely readable portrait of a sui generis thinker who was fiercely committed to her ideals yet whose life contained fascinating contradictions."., Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 2009, 2.5<

2009, ISBN: 9780385513999

New York: Nan A. Talese; Doubleday, 2009. xiv, 567 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "… Mehr…

New York: Nan A. Talese; Doubleday, 2009. xiv, 567 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Ayn Rand's books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the Libertarian movement, influenced White House economic policies throughout the Reagan years and beyond, and inspired the Tea Party movement. Yet twenty-eight years after her death, readers know very little about her life. In this seminal biography, Anne C. Heller traces the controversial author's life from her childhood in Bolshevik Russia to her years as a Hollywood screenwriter, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that worshipped her in the 1950s and 1960s. Based on original research in Russia and scores of interviews with Rand's acquaintances and former acolytes, Ayn Rand and the World She Made is a comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible., Nan A. Talese; Doubleday, 2009, 5<

2009, ISBN: 0385513992

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2009, ISBN: 9780385513999

Nan A. Talese, 2009-10-27. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.5000 in x 9.3000 in x 6.7000 in., Nan A. Talese, 2009-10-27, 3