Name of the book:
(1) Atlas Shrugged (2)The Fountainhead
Author: Ayn Rand
Arguably one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, Ayn Rand is known for her two books—Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead—because these books make you think.....a lot! Although long-winded (each books exceeds 1000 pages in small print), they provide a vivid and prolific snapshot of the politics of life in the mid 1900s in the US. So convincing are the ideas in this book that very few people, i.e. only the Obama-like orators, can dare to challenge Rand’s point of view.
Her books created simultaneously a branch of Philosophy and a movement known as Objectivism (more about Objectivism here). Read the book to get a feel of the typical American hero of the 1950s—a winner in the corporate world who battles tough government thugs to make a neat profit.
An entrepreneur’s manifesto, the book is at once teaching us and entertaining us. It asks you the reader to dare to follow your ego, dare to disagree with altruists and defiantly turn a profit and finally dare to dream big dreams and fight every battle with everyone who is in your way. It is a bold, brave and liberating piece of prose. Pity that there is no account of Rand as an entrepreneur herself because she would have done one heck of a job.
So set aside a few months to finish these mammoths—they deserve that kind of time.
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