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Bernstein, Andrew. Ayn Rand for Beginners.
( For Beginners) Steerforth Press 2009 105p 14.99 978-1-9343-8937-9 ms/hs
This Ayn Rand for Beginners provides a simplified graphic biography and summaries of two of Ayn Rand works: The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. It also gives the reader an analysis for these two works. Ayn Rand was born in Russia 1905 and was able to escape in 1926 after the Bolshevik revolution occurred and just as communism was established. This experience left Ayn with strong negative feelings about communism and led her down the path of the individualist thought. At a very young age Ayn wanted to be a writer. When she arrived in America she began to follow her dream by going to Hollywood. There she did work as an extra in films, as a script reader, then as a filing clerk and from there she was able to be buy her own typewriter and she began to write her first novel. In this comic style book the author gives you Ayn Rand's biography and then offer the reader a summary, analysis and interpretation of two of her novels. It also discusses her philosophy. Includes Black and white illustrations and information about the author and illustrator Diaz, Magna