For the New Intellectual » (Reissue)

Ayn Rand is one of the rare writers who not only drew in readers with her novels, but created a philosophical movement with them. Her seminal Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, cornerstones of her individualistic Objectivist world view, can be viewed as literature, self-empowerment texts, or both.

Ayn Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time sets forth a controversial moral philosophy of rational self-interest that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice.