You may have a very superficial understanding of what she was trying to get across. And by number of books sold, she might just top all of those other authors you mentioned combined. Not that book sales are the be all and end all of anything, just an indication. You read Alfred North Whitehead? He's one dense fellow, if I recall correctly. Wrote a few papers on his stuff, just course work, when I was a kid.
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Many articles on a quick google search of book sales. Didn't bother to look up Tolstoys numbers. And Huxley and Darwin might have had a Randian streak in them, although Shaw assuredly not. Don't recall the social structure parts of Camus or Sartre, at least as they relate to the accumulation and use of political power, but then I just read the novels and not their philosophical treatise, did they write such? I'd be willing to give that a try, their novels were a little murky, although powerful.
Sales of “Atlas Shrugged” Soar in the Face of Economic Crisis
Washington, D.C., February 23, 2009--Sales of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” have almost tripled over the first seven weeks of this year compared with sales for the same period in 2008. This continues a strong trend after bookstore sales reached an all-time annual high in 2008 of about 200,000 copies sold.
“Americans are flocking to buy and read ‘Atlas Shrugged’ because there are uncanny similarities between the plot-line of the book and the events of our day” said Yaron Brook, Executive Director at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. “Americans are rightfully concerned about the economic crisis and government’s increasing intervention and attempts to control the economy. Ayn Rand understood and identified the deeper causes of the crisis we’re facing, and she offered, in ‘Atlas Shrugged,’ a principled and practical solution consistent with American values."
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