Atlas shrugged at 50: what the American right could learn from a Russian novelist.
| 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 |
| Author | n/a | Brian Doherty |
| Person | Appreciation | Ayn Rand |
| Person | Works | Ayn Rand |
| Related Content | Type |
| Atlas Shrugged | eNotes |
| Atlas Shrugged | quickNotes |
| Atlas Shrugged | Salem on Literature |
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By the time her novel Atlas Shrugged was published on October 10, 1957, Ayn Rand realized she was no conservative, despite her opposition to government controls imposed in the New Deal era. Instead, she declared, she was a "radical for capitalism."
The conservative movement turned its back on her as well. Atlas was a ferocious defense of values shared by many conservatives, then and now: limited government, economic liberty, the primacy of individual rights over collective needs. Still, National Review's editor William F. Buckley found the...
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