Ayn Rand (Hardcover) Leonard Peikoff

Ayn Rand (Hardcover) Leonard PeikoffBy Jeff Britting Ayn Rand made a profound impact as both a philosopher who founded a school of social thought, Objectivism, and as a novelist of penetrating insight and vision. Her works are founded on heroic ideals, demonstrating the maxim that, "mans ego is the fountainhead of human progress." The photos and illustrations in this volume have been hand selected from the Ayn Rand Archives, and most have never been published. They include personal

Medicine: The Death of a Profession by Leonard Peikoff

as well as the poem she requested to be read at her funeral

What underlay Edison's legendary productiveness

It shows why introspection is important in a person's life and why so few people do it and why so few are good at it

” But today

VanDamme presents her approach to education

Reformulating and Integrating

" by Nathaniel Hawthorne) and contrasts them with popular fiction ("The Gift of Cochise

to Barbara Stanwyck

" the seductive fallacy of representationalism

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Peikoff ends by discussing why radio is a superior medium to spread philosophical ideas and why he would never agree to host a TV show