Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991.
In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of judgment has its value gone unrecognized, its brilliant inventor punished rather than rewarded for his efforts?
This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world—and did. In defense of those greatest of human qualities that have made civilization possible, he sets out to show what would happen to the world if all the heroes of innovation and industry went on strike. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? The answers will be revealed once you discover the reason behind the baffling events that wreak havoc on the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable book.
Tremendous in scope and 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.
© 2009 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781483086729
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 2 mars 2009
Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991.
In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of judgment has its value gone unrecognized, its brilliant inventor punished rather than rewarded for his efforts?
This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world—and did. In defense of those greatest of human qualities that have made civilization possible, he sets out to show what would happen to the world if all the heroes of innovation and industry went on strike. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? The answers will be revealed once you discover the reason behind the baffling events that wreak havoc on the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable book.
Tremendous in scope and 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.
© 2009 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781483086729
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 2 mars 2009
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Henrik
7 mars 2020
Hoppa till 24.50 för att komma förbi introduktionen. Tydligen spoilar introduktionen boken.
M
11 feb. 2021
Utan tvekan en av de bästa böckerna jag någonsin läst /lyssnat på. Ayn Rand vaskar fram essensen i det som driver ett fungerande samhälle framåt. Helt klart en bok som vinner på att läsas och lyssnas på flera gånger. Den berikar mycket mer andra gången. Rekommenderas varmt!
Linnéa
20 maj 2021
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Henrik
12 juni 2020
One of the few books in life that puzzles your brain. Therefor a great read. It make you start thinkin about what is important in life, but without telling you what it is.
Andreas
19 mars 2020
En fantastisk bok som ger en många intressanta synvinklar på framgång, stat och politik.
A
30 mars 2020
Read it
N
8 feb. 2023
In a nutshell - business tycoons are purely good people who devote their lives to the goodness of production. Workers are dumb little peons who are immensely grateful to their corporate overlords, without whom they'd be lost. All would be well if it wasn't for those damn politicians who just try to ruin everything... Oh and there's a pirate who steals from the state to give to the rich... Amazingly stupid book, it worries me how many people take this silliness seriously.
J.
6 mars 2021
Ett kapitalistiskt manifest, illa förklätt som en roman med platta karaktärer och repetitivt språk. Efter sisådär hundra sidor är det uppenbart vad författaren vill ha sagt, men hon ägnar ändå ungefär tusen sidor till åt att tvinga ner sin samhällsfilosofi i halsen på läsaren.
Angelina
9 apr. 2021
As Murray Rothbard once said, this is the greatest book ever written, fiction and nonfiction.
Anton
3 mars 2023
Är inte del av kollektivet som hypar Rand, men då fountainhead var uppbygglig och tidvis lite generande var denna en bok som länge stampade i sina "spår" i ett utdraget race mot systemkollaps som nästan höll på i en evighet. Jag tror Timbro-gänget kan hitta mer inspiration med modernare slutsatser i mer sentida genrer (men så är jag väl inte målgrupp för denna andas profetior heller).
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