By Ayn Rand
Highbrow secret tale that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex.
Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economic climate is collapsing end result of the mysterious disappearance of major innovators and industrialists, this novel offers an stunning landscape of human life-from the efficient genius who turns into a valueless playboy...to the good metal industrialist who doesn't recognize that he's operating for his personal destruction...to the thinker who turns into a pirate...to the lady who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the bottom song employee in her educate tunnels.
Peopled through larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of fine and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a philosophical revolution informed within the kind of an motion mystery.
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