Atlas Shrugged

Written by Ayn Rand

Narrated by Scott Brick

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world––and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he fight his hardest battle not against his enemies but against the woman he loves?

Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, which launched an ideology and a movement. With the publication of this work in 1957, Rand gained an instant following and became a phenomenon. Atlas Shrugged emerged as a premier moral apologia for capitalism, a defense that had an electrifying effect on millions of readers-and now listeners-who had never heard capitalism defended in other than technical terms.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Blackstone Audio
• Release date: Sep 28, 2009
• ISBN: 9780786102327

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) wrote the bestselling novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) and founded the philosophy known as objectivism. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Rand taught herself to read at the age of six and soon resolved to become a professional writer. In 1926, she left Communist Russia to pursue a screenwriting career in Hollywood, and she published her first novel ten years later. With her next book, the dystopian novella Anthem (1938), she introduced the theme that she would devote the rest of her life to pursuing: the inevitable triumph of the individual over the collective. 

Reviews for Atlas Shrugged

[fulner · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

the story continues, part two focuses on the continuing afair between dagny and rearden. In addition James falls in love with a capitalist who lwoeRks at the drug store. She thinks that Tagney knows real cqpitalism bit if its communism at its point. The government passes additional laws that nonone lniws or understands

[rolandotrejos · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

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