Myths about Ayn Rand: Popular Errors and the Insights They Conceal

*A #1 FREE KINDLE BEST-SELLER IN "POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY" and "ETHICS AND MORALITY"* *A #2 PAID KINDLE BEST-SELLER IN "POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY" and "ETHICS AND MORALITY"* *A TOP 10 AMAZON BEST-SELLER IN ALL "POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY" BOOKS* Since the 2008 recession began, sales of Atlas Shrugged have surged and the novel (and author Ayn Rand) have landed at the center of American politics, including presidential campaigns. Thousands of media articles have been written about Ayn Rand’s ideas. A firestorm of criticism has followed. How is one to make sense of all the competing claims about Rand's ideas? What did Ayn Rand believe? Was she a prophetic visionary who sounded a warning bell about creeping socialism and the financial disaster that would follow in its wake? Did she define what is quintessentially American—individualism, self-authorship, achievement, and freedom? Or was she the lowest of the low, a fawning and vapid worshipper of wealthy persons and unbridled power? If someone asked you