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From the Publisher:

Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the hugely bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

The novels have attracted three generations of readers, helped shape the Libertarian movement, and influenced government policies throughout the Reagan and Bush years. Rand remains a powerful force in the political perceptions of million of Americans today. Yet twenty-five years after her death, her readers know little about her life.

In this major biography, Anne C. Heller traces the controversial author’s life from her childhood in Russia to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s. Throughout, Anne reveals previously unknown facts about Rand’s history, rise to fame, and personal life; she looks at Rand with fascinating new research and a fresh perspective.