The Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, is so committed a Randian, he was famous for giving every new member of his staff a copy of Rand’s gargantuan novel, Atlas Shrugged (along with Freidrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom). Long the poster girl of a particularly hardcore brand of free-market fundamentalism – the advocate of a philosophy she called “ the virtue of selfishness” – Rand has always had acolytes in the conservative political classes. It is a timely decision because Rand, who died in 1982 and was alternately ridiculed and revered throughout her lifetime, is having a moment. For the curriculum includes a new addition: the work of Ayn Rand. A s they plough through their GCSE revision, UK students planning to take politics A-level in the autumn can comfort themselves with this thought: come September, they will be studying one thinker who does not belong in the dusty archives of ancient political theory but is achingly on trend. For more information on Objectivism and Ayn Rand, visit. The Ayn Rand Institute is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting the philosophy of Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. The Ayn Rand Institute has experts available for interviews. 2,962,876 of these have been requested from the Ayn Rand Institute by American school teachers.
To date Rand’s books have sold a total of 29,500,000 copies. Annual purchases of Atlas Shrugged by decade averaged:
Atlas Shrugged was a bestseller in Rand’s day, but it’s selling more than ever in the 2010s. The popular author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead has sold 1,000,000 copies of all of her titles in 2012.Ģ012 saw Atlas Shrugged sell 359,105 copies, its third highest total of all time, behind 2009 (#1) and 2011 (#2).Īs the decades move along Rand has only gotten more popular. Thirty years after her death, novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is still selling a lot of books, a million to be precise. Atlas Shrugged Author Sells 1,000,000 Books in 2012
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