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This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemys but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will learn the answers to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable book. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, "Atlas shrugged" is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, which launched an ideology and a movement. With the publication of this work in 1957, Rand gained an instant following and became a phenomenon. "Atlas shrugged" emerged as a premier moral apologia for Capitalism, a defense that had an electrifying effect on millions of readers (and now listeners) who have never heard Capitalism defended in other than technical terms.… (mais)
PghDragonMan: This earlier work is more lyrical and is a milder, and more condensed, version of the philosophy expressed by this work.
bigtent21: "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead" are becoming more relevant as we head into 2009. Large Government Buyouts and Regulation are the scourge of Atlas Shrugged and the outright sponsoring of mediocrity predominates The Fountainhead. Rand can be long-winded, but these two books are must reads regardless of your own personal beliefs.… (mais)
mcaution: Gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of Rand's magnum opus through this unique collection of scholarly criticism. See why after 50+ years in print it's selling better than when it was first published.
Usuário anônimo: If you love books that try to push the envelope of philosophical thought, but do it within a rapid-fire plot, this is the book for you.
Usuário anônimo: Both of these books are famous for being controversial, and are as hated by their detractors as they are loved by their fans.
They also both have a long winded speech by a character who starts off not being a real part of the story and ends up being the full protagonist.… (mais)
kswolff: Like "Atlas Shrugged," it is an aspirational epic about a strong-minded, pleasure-seeking woman triumphing over adversity and the herd mentality of her fellow humans. Sade, like Rand, was also a strident atheist given to writing characters give long speeches.
Considerado o livro mais influente nos Estados Unidos depois da Bíblia, segundo a Biblioteca do Congresso americano, A revolta de Atlas é um romance monumental. A história se passa numa época imprecisa, quando as forças políticas de esquerda estão no poder. Último baluarte do que ainda resta do capitalismo num mundo infestado de repúblicas populares, os Estados Unidos estão em decadência e sua economia caminha para o colapso. Nesse cenário desolador em que a intervenção estatal se sobrepõe a qualquer iniciativa privada de reerguer a economia, os principais líderes da indústria, do empresariado, das ciências e das artes começam a sumir sem deixar pistas. Com medidas arbitrárias e leis manipuladas, o Estado logo se apossa de suas propriedades e invenções, mas não é capaz de manter a lucratividade de seus negócios. Ayn Rand traça um panorama estarrecedor de uma realidade em que o desaparecimento das mentes criativas põe em xeque toda a existência. Com personagens fascinantes, a autora apresenta os princípios de sua filosofia: a defesa da razão, do individualismo, do livre mercado e da liberdade de expressão, bem como os valores segundo os quais o homem deve viver – a racionalidade, a honestidade, a justiça, a independência, a integridade, a produtividade e o orgulho. Best-seller há mais de 50 anos, com mais de 11 milhões de exemplares vendidos no mundo, A revolta de Atlas desafia algumas das crenças mais arraigadas da sociedade atual. Sua mensagem transformadora conquistou uma legião de leitores e fãs: cada indivíduo é responsável por suas ações e por buscar a liberdade e a felicidade como valores supremos.
"to warn contemporary America against abandoning its factories, neglecting technological progress and abolishing the profit motive seems a little like admonishing water against running uphill."
"inspired" and "monumental" but "(t)o the Christian, everyone is redeemable. But Ayn Rand’s ethical hardness may repel those who most need her message: that charity should be voluntary…. She should not have tried to rewrite the Sermon on the Mount."
"We struggle to be just. For we cannot help feeling at least a sympathetic pain before the sheer labor, discipline, and patient craftsmanship that went to making this mountain of words. But the words keep shouting us down. In the end that tone dominates. But it should be its own antidote, warning us that anything it shouts is best taken with the usual reservations with which we might sip a patent medicine. Some may like the flavor. In any case, the brew is probably without lasting ill effects. But it is not a cure for anything. Nor would we, ordinarily, place much confidence in the diagnosis of a doctor who supposes that the Hippocratic Oath is a kind of curse."
"remarkably silly" and "can be called a novel only by devaluing the term" ... "From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: 'To the gas chambers — go!'"
[Rand] deserves credit at least for imagination; unfortunately, it is tied to ludicrous naiveté. There could have been something exhilarating about the capitalists' revolt—except for the fact that what Rand presents is not so much capitalism as its hideous caricature. In fact, if her intention were to destroy faith in capitalism, she could not have written a book better suited to the purpose.
Perhaps most of us have moments when we feel that it might be a good idea if the whole human race, except for the few nice people we know, were wiped out; but one wonders about a person who sustains such a mood through the writing of 1,168 pages and some fourteen years of work.
adicionado por GYKM | editarSaturday Review, Helen Beal Woodward(Oct 12, 1957)
Challenging and readable, and quick with suspense... It's a book every businessman should hug to his breast, and the first novel I recall to glorify the dollar mark and the virtue in profit.
This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemys but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will learn the answers to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable book. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, "Atlas shrugged" is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, which launched an ideology and a movement. With the publication of this work in 1957, Rand gained an instant following and became a phenomenon. "Atlas shrugged" emerged as a premier moral apologia for Capitalism, a defense that had an electrifying effect on millions of readers (and now listeners) who have never heard Capitalism defended in other than technical terms.
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Biblioteca Histórica: Ayn Rand
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Nesse cenário desolador em que a intervenção estatal se sobrepõe a qualquer iniciativa privada de reerguer a economia, os principais líderes da indústria, do empresariado, das ciências e das artes começam a sumir sem deixar pistas. Com medidas arbitrárias e leis manipuladas, o Estado logo se apossa de suas propriedades e invenções, mas não é capaz de manter a lucratividade de seus negócios.
Ayn Rand traça um panorama estarrecedor de uma realidade em que o desaparecimento das mentes criativas põe em xeque toda a existência. Com personagens fascinantes, a autora apresenta os princípios de sua filosofia: a defesa da razão, do individualismo, do livre mercado e da liberdade de expressão, bem como os valores segundo os quais o homem deve viver – a racionalidade, a honestidade, a justiça, a independência, a integridade, a produtividade e o orgulho.
Best-seller há mais de 50 anos, com mais de 11 milhões de exemplares vendidos no mundo, A revolta de Atlas desafia algumas das crenças mais arraigadas da sociedade atual. Sua mensagem transformadora conquistou uma legião de leitores e fãs: cada indivíduo é responsável por suas ações e por buscar a liberdade e a felicidade como valores supremos.