This is John Campbell speaking: can a pork-busting Randian lead the GOP?
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Published | 2007-12-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Beliefs, opinions and attitudes | John Campbell |
| Person | Influence | Ayn Rand |
| Person | Works | Ayn Rand |
| Author | n/a | David Weigel |
IF REP. JOHN Campbell (R-Calif.) said his book shelf was a time capsule, a memorial to the modern GOP, you'd believe him. Here is Stephen Slivinski's Buck Wild, a jeremiad against the Bush-era big-spending Republicans. Here is Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept, the terrifying tale of how "radical Islam is destroying the West from within." Here is one of Watergate felon Chuck Colson's bestsellers on how Christ can save your life.
Less predictable are the tomes bookending the collection: not one but two hardbound copies of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, a favorite among...
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