Re: Rand's influnce

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 7:15 PM 10/17/95, Joshua Mercer wrote:

>In 1991, the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club ran a
>survey of the books that most impact people's life.  Second behind the
>Bible was Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_.  Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan was
>associated with Rand in the 60's (he's since changed his philosophy).
>House Approriations Chairman Robert Livingston listed _Atlas Shrugged_
>as the book that most influenced his politics beliefs.

Let's see, the most influential book in America is one that contains one of
my favorite lines in all of literature - "Happy shall he be, that taketh
and dasheth thy little ones against the stone" (Psalm 137:9) - and the
second is one that says it's liberating to be selfish. Sort of explains
America, doesn't it?

Doug

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