Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success by Popoff, Alexandra

Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success

A deeply researched biography of the prominent and divisive writer Ayn Rand, whose pro-capitalist novels and nonfiction...
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Author: Alexandra Popoff
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Language: English
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Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success by Popoff, Alexandra

Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success

Dhs. 157.20

Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success

Dhs. 157.20
Author: Alexandra Popoff
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A deeply researched biography of the prominent and divisive writer Ayn Rand, whose pro-capitalist novels and nonfiction have influenced three generations of Americans

Biographer Alexandra Popoff traces the life and creative achievement of Ayn Rand (1905-1982), one of America's most provocative writers and whose best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged have enjoyed impressive longevity. Born into a Jewish family in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Rand (then Alisa Rosenbaum) lived through the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Civil War, and the onset of Soviet totalitarian dictatorships--experiences that made her profoundly anticommunist. When in 1926 Rand escaped from Stalinist Russia to realize her talent in America, she was also determined to expose the Communist system.

Through her apprenticeship in Hollywood, where she worked as a scriptwriter, to her first anti-Communist novel, We the Living, Rand doggedly pursued her goal, battling the Soviet belief system, along with its precepts of collectivism and statism. She defended American capitalism, individualism, prosperity, and creativity; her literary heroes were talented high achievers. While Marx had declared war on capitalism and prophesied the triumph of the proletariat, Rand, whose family was dispossessed by the Bolsheviks, glorified the wealth-creator and held the masses in contempt. In Atlas Shrugged, her most controversial novel, she promoted laissez-faire capitalism and the morality of rational self-interest. She envisaged apocalypse in America if it followed the socialist path.

Author: Alexandra Popoff
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 08/06/2024
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780300253214


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2024

About the Author
Alexandra Popoff is a former Moscow journalist and Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow. She is the author of several literary biographies, including the award-winning Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century and Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography. She lives in Canada.

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