Atlas Shrugged

Description:

Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction...to the philosopher who becomes a pirate...to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the lowest track worker in her train tunnels. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.

subjects: Fiction,  Capitalism in fiction,  Egoism,  Egoism in fiction,  Capitalism,  Objectivity,  Objectivity in fiction,  Objectivism (Philosophy),  Adventure stories,  open_syllabus_project,  Mystery story, Who is John Galt?,  Egoism -- Fiction.,  Capitalism -- Fiction.,  Objectivism (Philosophy) -- Fiction.,  Adventure stories.,  Science fiction.,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Egoism -- Fiction,  Capitalism -- Fiction,  Objectivity -- Fiction,  Politics and government,  Fiction, science fiction, general,  Success,  Power (Social sciences),  Individuality,  Classical literature,  Science fiction

People: Dagny Taggart,  John Galt,  Hank Rearden,  Francisco d'Anconia,  James Taggart