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Atlas Shrugged Plot Synopsis

Atlas Shrugged is structured in three major parts, each of which consists of ten chapters. The parts and chapters are named, and the titles

Apr 11, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
12 Mins
Structural Integration in The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged

In her writings on art, Ayn Rand put great emphasis on the value of structural unity in an artwork. Holding that an important purpose of ar

Apr 7, 2011
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Kirsti Minsaas
12 Mins
Atlas Shrugged: Cast of Characters

This selective listing includes the novel's more noteworthy characters.....

Apr 5, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
8 Mins
A Philosophy for the 21st Century

When Atlas Shrugged was published in October of 1957, it spoke to a world that was very different from ours, on the surface at least. Dwigh

Apr 5, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
10 Mins
Atlas Shrugged as Literature

One day in the 1940’s, a young reporter asked Ayn Rand about the new novel he heard that she was planning.

Apr 5, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
8 Mins
Atlas Shrugged Timeline

Scholars, students, and fans of Ayn Rand ’s masterwork, Atlas Shrugged , often find it difficult to grasp the complex details of its plot..

Apr 5, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
Ayn Rand and Reason

Ayn Rand 's ideas inspired many people; one of them was me. When I began reading Atlas Shrugged in the summer of 1964, I had no idea that

Apr 5, 2011
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Robert Poole
2 Mins
Dagny Shoots and Flies

December 2004 -- Dagny Taggart shoots guns and flies airplanes. These rational survival skills exhilarate all the heroes in Ayn Rand 's....

Apr 5, 2011
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Madeleine Cosman
3 Mins
Exclusive World Premiere of Atlas Shrugged in Washington, D.C.!

The exclusive world premiere of Atlas Shrugged Part I will be held on April 12, 2011 in Washington, D.C. Appropriately, the venue of the

Mar 31, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
2 Mins
Multiculturalism and its Discontents

July/August 2005 -- England's multicultural delusions were literally exploded this past summer when British citizens, children of Islamic...

Mar 30, 2011
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Bruce S. Thornton
10 Mins
Going Galt

"Tea parties." "Going Galt." You've probably seen a growing number of references to these in the media, online, and on signs at rallies...

Mar 23, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Review of Atlas Shrugged Part 1, the film

“Midas Mulligan,” says the shadowy figure who accosts the prominent banker in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged .

Feb 25, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
3 Mins
Sidebar: David Kelley, Screenplay Advisor

My chief role on this script—as on scripts from previous projects—was to review the script before it was finalized and flag anything

Feb 23, 2011
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4 Mins
Atlas Shrugged Movie: Interview with John Aglialoro

Let me give you some background first. I had purchased a fifteen-year lease to make a movie of the book in August 1992 from Leonard Peikoff

Feb 15, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
7 Mins
Atlas Shrugged as Prophecy

October 2007 -- In the newsrooms of New York, in the corridors of Congress, and in the parlors of political parties, prognostication is the

Jan 8, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
Atlas Shrugged: The Making of a Movie

was an evening to remember. On December 7, 2010, at the historic Hudson Theatre in New York City, The Atlas Society sponsored a celebration

Oct 13, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Book Review: "Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged"

BOOK REVIEW: Edward W. Younkins, Editor, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot

Sep 8, 2010
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William Thomas
6 Mins
Rand's Persecuted Minority

The Atlases who bear this world on their shoulders. Uniquely, Rand’s work portrays the exploited entrepreneurs of the mixed economy as the..

Jun 29, 2010
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10 Mins
Outline of John Galt's Speech

In Atlas Shrugged , the hero, John Galt, makes a radio speech to the nation revealing the strike of the producers and explaining its......

Jun 29, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
10 Mins
The Capitalist Ideal: The Moral Vision of "Atlas Shrugged"

In 1917, Bolsheviks under Lenin seized control of Russia in the famous October revolution, ending a short-lived experiment with .....

Jun 26, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
10 Mins

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