Atlas Shrugged
By Ayn Rand
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Who is John Galt? Across America, the most productive people are giving up in baffling ways: a brilliant industrialist becomes a worthless playboy, a steel magnate seems bent on his own ruin, a composer quits on the night of his triumph. Dagny Taggart, who runs a transcontinental railroad, is determined to find out why. Ayn Rand's epic novel is part mystery, part love story, and the fullest statement of her philosophy, Objectivism: a celebration of human ability and ambition.
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