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Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed
Lisa Duggan
University of California Press; $18.95;
116 pages
Ayn Rand liked to see herself as an ardent custodian of truth, but in her own life she had a hard time abiding too much reality. The critical recognition she craved mostly eluded her — her best-selling novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) were lurid, melodramatic, full of implausible characters and turgid harangues — and as her fame and notoriety grew, she retreated to the safe harbour of her acolytes.
Or presumably safe. As Lisa Duggan explains
Lisa Duggan
University of California Press; $18.95;
116 pages
Ayn Rand liked to see herself as an ardent custodian of truth, but in her own life she had a hard time abiding too much reality. The critical recognition she craved mostly eluded her — her best-selling novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) were lurid, melodramatic, full of implausible characters and turgid harangues — and as her fame and notoriety grew, she retreated to the safe harbour of her acolytes.
Or presumably safe. As Lisa Duggan explains
