The New Yorker, July 24, 1995:
"Twilight of the Goddess." A critical look at Ayn Rand and
her work -- "the Camille Paglia of the 60's."
Thirteen years after Rand's death, her books still sell
more than three hundred thousand copies a year. Not
since the popular novels of almost a century before,
bent on refutations of Darwin or God, and offering what
George Eliot called "a complete theory of life and
manual of divinity, in a love story," had there appeared
so vividly accessible and reassuring a guide for the
cosmically perplexed. As late as 1991, the Library of
Congress found that a majority of Americans surveyed
named "Atlas Shrugged" as the book that had most
influenced their lives, after the Bible.
AYN_ran [About 57K, in three parts]
"Twilight of the Goddess." A critical look at Ayn Rand and
her work -- "the Camille Paglia of the 60's."
Thirteen years after Rand's death, her books still sell
more than three hundred thousand copies a year. Not
since the popular novels of almost a century before,
bent on refutations of Darwin or God, and offering what
George Eliot called "a complete theory of life and
manual of divinity, in a love story," had there appeared
so vividly accessible and reassuring a guide for the
cosmically perplexed. As late as 1991, the Library of
Congress found that a majority of Americans surveyed
named "Atlas Shrugged" as the book that had most
influenced their lives, after the Bible.
AYN_ran [About 57K, in three parts]