ISBN10: 0525948929, ISBN13: 9780525948926, [publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil,Atlas Shruggedis 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.Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator?Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves?You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this book. You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy.why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction.why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph.why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill.Atlas Shrugged, a modern classic and Rand's most extensive statement ofObjectivism-her groundbreaking philosophy-offers the reader the spectacle of human greatness, depicted with all the poetry and power of one of the twentieth century's leading artists. The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand's Centennial Year. The ...
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ISBN10: 0525948929, ISBN13: 9780525948926, [publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil,Atlas Shruggedis 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.Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator?Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves?You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this book. You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy.why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction.why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph.why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill.Atlas Shrugged, a modern classic and Rand's most extensive statement ofObjectivism-her groundbreaking philosophy-offers the reader the spectacle of human greatness, depicted with all the poetry and power of one of the twentieth century's leading artists. The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand's Centennial Year. The ...
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Penguin Publishing Group, Date: 2005. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2005. Penguin Publishing Group ISBN 0525948929 9780525948926 [US]

ISBN10: 0525948929, ISBN13: 9780525948926, [publisher: Dutton Adult] Hardcover
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

ISBN10: 0525948929, ISBN13: 9780525948926, [publisher: Dutton/Penguin Group, New York, NY] Hardcover First Edition Dutton/Penguin Group, New York. 2005. Hardcover. Stated Centennial Edition (Of her Birth in 1905) 9th Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head and tail; light smudging to textblock edges. DJ: Very Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($39.95); light edge bumping and rubbing to panels; small closed tear at to pf spine. Black paper over boards with black paper overlay on the spine; bright gilt lettering on the spine. 1168 pp 8vo. This book depicts a dystopian United States in which private businesses suffer under increasingly burdensome laws and regulations. Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and her lover, steel magnate Hank Rearden, struggle against "looters" who want to exploit their productivity. Dagny and Hank discover that a mysterious figure called John Galt is persuading other business leaders to abandon their companies and disappear as a strike of productive individuals against the looters. The novel ends with the strikers planning to build a new capitalist society based on Galt's philosophy of reason and individualism. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
[Winfield, KS, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

ISBN10: 0525948929, ISBN13: 9780525948926, [publisher: Dutton Adult] Hardcover
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]