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Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed.)

Name: Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed.)
Rating: 5 (42 reviews)
Author: Ayn Rand
ISBN: 9780451191144

Ayn Rand · 1999 · 1096 pages

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves?

You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this book. You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy...why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction...why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph...why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill.

Atlas Shrugged, a modern classic and Rand’s most extensive statement of Objectivism—her groundbreaking philosophy—offers the reader the spectacle of human greatness, depicted with all the poetry and power of one of the twentieth century’s leading artists.

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Steve Jobs
“One of the final films Jobs saw was Part 1 of Atlas Shrugged at his local theater. “Steve was very fast thinking and wanted to do things, I wanted to build things. I think Atlas Shrugged was one of his guides in life” -Steve Wozniak”↗
Travis Kalanick
“Q. The Randian philosophy has come to bear on this situation, you would admit. T. K. - That’s probably true. I’d say there’s an uncanny resemblance, especially on the “Atlas Shrugged” side.”↗
Gabby Reece
“I read Atlas Shrugged when I was 15, and I gave it to a lot of people because it shifted how I looked at certain things.”↗
Peter Diamandis
“Something I’ve read multiple times to get me in the mindset of not letting anything stand in my way”↗
Joe De Sena
“Loved Atlas Shrugged. Read often.”↗
Bob Metcalfe
“My favorite book.”↗
Shah Rukh Khan
“@swasthi_cs bourne identity...atlas shrugged...douglas adams books...and artemis fowl”↗
Russell Brunson
“Been reading #AtlasShrugged for the last month and it is so good!!! Has anyone here read it? If not, DO IT!!! :)”↗
Arianna Simpson
“I am reading these two books simultaneously and WOW what a trip”↗
Jared Polis
“Just saw atlas shrugged, Colorado featured prominently and favorably, a good adaptation of a great book”↗
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