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‘Atlas Shrugged’ at Fifty
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Author: Barbara Branden
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Category: Biographies, Media and Culture
I think of Ayn’s happiness and expectation, I think of the pain and bitter disillusion that scarred the rest of her life — and something inside me twists in pain for her, and tears stand in my eyes, writes Barbara Branden. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Floy
Atlas Shrugged at Fifty
Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: Barbara Branden
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Category: Austrian Economics Overview, Media and Culture
It was October 1957, several days before the official publication date. That evening, I went with Ayn, Frank, and my husband, Nathaniel, to see if the book was displayed in the Random House window. It was the first time we had seen the book outside of our own small, private world of Ayn’s apartment, the first time it had been out in the wider
Atlas Shrugged at Fifty
Mises Daily
Author: Barbara Branden
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Category: Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory, Big Government, Biographies, Free Markets, Media and Culture
[This article orginally appeared in the Journal of Libertarian Studies , Vol. 21 Num. 4. An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Floy Lilley, is available for download .] I find it hard to grasp that it’s been 50 years since the publication of Atlas Shrugged . I remember that period so vividly, as if it had been filmed and I were watching the