02047nam a22002297a 4500 BJBSDDR 20260515102103.0 ta 260515s2009 nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780195324877 0197713505 spa BJBSDDR eng B967g 2009 Burns, Jennifer, 1975- 42977 Goddess of the market : Ayn Rand and the American Right / Jennifer Burns New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Worshipped 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 lcc 0 BK cmc 127104 127104 0 0 lcc 0 0 APT BJB BJB APT 2026-05-15 0 B967g 2009 00000199803 2026-05-15 10:21:33 1 2026-05-15 BK