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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (18831)	12/28/2011 11:45:05 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

To be fair, her books have not been around as long as Shakespeare or the bible! reason.com "...A hundred years after her birth and nearly 25 years after her death, Ayn Rand remains a fascinating and enigmatic presence. She has been "mainstreamed" enough to have been honored by a U.S. Postal Service stamp in 1999 and to have been featured on C-SPAN'sAmerican Writers series in 2002. Her novels figure prominently in readers' lists of the 20th century's greatest books. Notably, in a 1991 survey of more than 2,000 Book-of-the-Month Club members about books that made a difference in their lives, Rand's magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, came in second--albeit a very distant second--to the Bible. Rand, a devout atheist, might have seen that as an insult rather than an honor..." "...Politically, Rand wanted to provide liberal capitalism with a moral foundation, to take on the prevalent notion that communism was a noble if unworkable idea while the free market was a necessary evil best suited to flawed human nature. In this she succeeded brilliantly (even if the notion that socialism failed because it has never been properly tried is still alive and well among the intelligentsia). Her arguments against "compassionate" redistribution--and persecution--of wealth have lost none of their power in the decades after they were made..."