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Atlas Shrugged (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)

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“Who is John Galt?” The question, which begins Atlas Shrugged, is used rhetorically, in the place of “Who knows?” Through the first half of the novel, various legends about him are advanced. Approximately halfway through the book, the reader discovers that there is in fact a John Galt, the leader of a revolt of intellectuals unwilling to let the products of their effort be taken by others except in fair trade.

The massive novel (more than eleven hundred pages) begins as Eddie Willers, an assistant working in operations at the Taggart...

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