Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?”. Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form with this classic Atlas Shrugged to express her vision of existence. This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world—and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor—and the motive power of every man? 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 characters in this story.
Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life—from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy—to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction—to the philosopher who becomes a pirate—to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph—to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad—to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.
Eric Wilson’s Review: Surprisingly it has taken me this long to formally write a review of this book. I have just recently completed this book for yet another time and it is even more relevant today and keeps getting more pertinent every day. You must be prepared, when you read this book, to check every premise at the root of your convictions. Getting past some of the run on dialogue and flowery descriptions of scenery there lays a frightening analogy of what we see today. At its core this book is a philosophical journey of human nature and at its meaning it continues as a warning to everyone. If you read this and it does not make the hair stand up on the back of your neck; if you don’t think it can happen here and is happening now – check your premises because one of them is wrong.
