Why did I love this book?
Nearly every economic problem would be fixed if we adhered to the concepts in Rand’s book. Written as fiction, the work tackles the downsides of ever-increasing governmental overreach, and how standing with your rigid principles is more important than ever with all the looters and moochers around nowadays.
The work goes on to explain that money is not the root of all evil, it is the root of all production. According to The US Library of Congress, Atlas Shrugged is the second-most influential book of all time (after The Bible).
9 authors picked Atlas Shrugged as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex. 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…