Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand Message-ID: <370020@acf4.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 17:57:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.370020 Posted: Mon Jun 24 17:57:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 05:58:11 EDT References: <865@mtgzz.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 25 >/* michaelk@azure.UUCP (Michael Kersenbrock) / 3:23 am Jun 21, 1985 */ >Further, she basically pushes the idea of capitalism in it's purest >sense. She puts it up as the ideal that society should organize >and strive for. This appears to be in contradiction with her contention that society knows what's best for one, i.e., by the same reasoning, neither does Rand. >She is more "American" than Americans (you know what I mean!). Do you mean she is anti-intellectual, as Americans seem to be in comparison with Europeans. I doubt it. I don't know why Rand was always harping on that AMERICAN nonsense (perhaps because she was an immigrant). I think it only served to confuse and disillusion readers. >I would like to get hold of a hard-bound copy. Laizzez Faire Books in New York has it in a special edition (collector's item or some such ...). I'm sure they have a plain hardcover (and less costly) edition as well. If you want more info, let me know. >Mike Kersenbrock Mike Sykora