Adam Weiner: How Ayn Rand Destroyed the World
Literary historian Dr Adam Weiner, of Wellesley College, sums up his book How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis, an essential study just out from Bloomsbury Academic. The book is on Amazon: http://bit.ly/NoAynRand. Published Review: "Weiner's literary criticism, focusing on political and philosophical themes, is solid up to and including his explication of Rand's Atlas Shrugged, written by a woman who, Weiner reminds us, grew up in St. Petersburg at a time when Chernyshevsky's influence there was 'ubiquitous and unassailable.' Weiner's conclusion that 'unfettered capitalism is no more a utopia than the chained collective' effectively damns both Chernyshevsky and Rand in one sentence." -- Publishers Weekly