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Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a bestseller for more than four decades as well as an intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies but against those who needed him most - and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor - and the motive power of every man? Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life - from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy ... to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction ... to the philosopher who becomes a pirate ... to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad ... to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's masterpiece. It is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.
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