Atlas Shrugged
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Robert James Bidinotto
Atlas Shrugged Plot Synopsis
Background
Atlas Shrugged is structured in three major parts, each of which consists of ten chapters. The parts and chapters are named, and the titles typically suggest multiple layers of meaning and implication.
The three parts of the book are each named in tribute to Aristotle's laws of logic.
Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela
March 2007 -- The late novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand once said that she wrote her last novel, Atlas Shrugged, “to keep it from becoming prophetic."
Based on recent news reports, she may not have succeeded.
The Revolutionary Philosophy of Atlas Shrugged
One evening after the publication of The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand was on the phone, discussing her disappointment over early sales with author Isabel Paterson. Paterson suggested that Rand stop trying to offer her radical ideas in fictional form, and instead write a nonfiction treatise. Rand disagreed.
Atlas Shrugged Changed My Life
Exactly forty years ago, this month, I was contemplating the tattered wreckage of my college career.
And The Book was responsible.
Atlas Shrugged Timeline
Explanatory Note: Scholars, students, and fans of Ayn Rand’s masterwork, Atlas Shrugged, often find it difficult to grasp the complex details of its plot, and to find temporal reference points for key events and relationships among its many characters. For their benefit, then, I have prepared this timeline of the key events that are depicted, or alluded to, in the novel.
Synopsis of the Plot of Atlas Shrugged
Background
Atlas Shrugged is structured in three major parts, each of which consists of ten chapters. The parts and chapters are named, and the titles typically suggest multiple layers of meaning and implication.
One day in the 1940’s, a young reporter asked 