Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought.
Goddess of the Market follows Rand from her childhood in Russia through her meteoric rise from struggling Hollywood screenwriter to bestselling novelist, including the writing of her wildly successful The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Burns highlights the two facets of Rand's work that make her a perennial draw for those on the right: her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists, libertarians and conservatives. The book also traces the development of Rand's Objectivist philosophy and her relationship with Nathaniel Branden, her closest intellectual partner, with whom she had an explosive falling out in 1968.
This extraordinary book captures the life of the woman who was a tireless champion of capitalism and the freedom of the individual, and whose ideas are still devoured by eager students, debated on blogs, cited by political candidates, and promoted by corporate tycoons. more

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1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-22-2009; A Mediocre Book Written by a Mediocre Author; This subject from the very beginning reads like a textbook. There is no emotion or character in the words on the page. I don't think Jennifer Burns sees anything beyond the context of who Ayn Rand was from a purely objective or...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-21-2009; Rand's Influence Felt, Lacks Key Analysis; Among the emerging biographies of Rand this work marks a distinction in that it draws from resources at the Ayn Rand Archives. Burns gives her readers some insight into Rand's appeal to the American Right (conservatives, libertarians,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-20-2009; Simpleminded; This is what you would get when someone doesn't care about his subject writes a book. She writes in a flippant style. Like we were reading a college student's report on an author he didn't care about. She glosses over philosophers and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-19-2009; Reader's Digest version of Rand; Burns seems to do well at accurately presenting various facts about Rand's life, her supporters, and her detractors. Though I'm sure she did extensive research and saw sources few others have utilized, unfortunately, not much of new...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-16-2009; Sets a New Standard for Books on Rand; For the first time, a book on Ayn Rand has been published which does not come from the Objectivist inner circle; which is of general interest; and which is written by an impartial scholar.The book marshalls a remarkable amount of...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-19-2009; Reader's Digest version of Rand; Burns seems to do well at accurately presenting various facts about Rand's life, her supporters, and her detractors. Though I'm sure she did extensive research and saw sources few others have utilized, unfortunately, not much of new...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-22-2009; A Mediocre Book Written by a Mediocre Author; This subject from the very beginning reads like a textbook. There is no emotion or character in the words on the page. I don't think Jennifer Burns sees anything beyond the context of who Ayn Rand was from a purely objective or...; read full review | report as inappropriate