01959nam a22001937a 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087040001800102041000900120050001600129100002800145245007900173260004800252300004300300520142200343BJBSDDR20260515102103.0ta260515s2009    nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780195324877  a0197713505  bspa cBJBSDDR  aeng   bB967g  20091 aBurns, Jennifer,d1975-10aGoddess of the market :bAyn Rand and the American Right /cJennifer Burns  aNew York : bOxford University Press,c2009  a369 pages : billustrations ; c 25 cm  aWorshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought.

Goddess of the Market follows Rand from her childhood in Russia through her meteoric rise from struggling Hollywood screenwriter to bestselling novelist, including the writing of her wildly successful The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Burns highlights the two facets of Rand's work that make her a perennial draw for those on the right: her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists, libertarians and conservatives. The book also traces the development of Rand's Objectivist philosophy and her relationship with Nathaniel Branden, her closest intellectual partner, with whom she had an explosive falling out in 1968