Would Ayn Rand ever have thought that her books were to become cult classics?
I buy books from numerous sources.  I bought a huge amount of books from some gals who didn't want the books but the other items they had bought in an estate sale.  The total amount of books was somewhere between 6-7000 with a great amount of Readers Digest and Encyclopedia's.  The story goes that a man wanted to create a library and had been collecting books for years.  His estate was sold and the books parted off to me.  In looking at the selection of books, indeed he had been creating a marvelous library. 

This edition of Atlas Shrugged is a first edition, second printing in unread condition.  Tight binding, crisp bright pages.............it is as if this book were fresh from the publisher Random House, 1957.  I wrapped the Dust Jacket in mylar to protect it from any damage as it had three pin pricks on the top front edge of the spine to the Dust Jacket.  I marveled at the age and the condition of this book. 

The great influence on economic thought in America in the 20th century has again reemerged into the mainstream America as we have looked at current conditions.  One of the great economist of the 20th/21st century was said to have been a proponent of Ayn Rand's economic philosophies, Alan Greenspan was purported to have been a fan of her philosophy.  My humble understanding of what I haven't read had to do with the individual success over the communal and the current climate has said that this philosophy has failed.
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