Playboy Classic: Ayn Rand

Ayn RandRemembering the great conservative thinker50 YEARS| PLAYBOY INTERVIEWFew writers in modern history have inspired as much reverence and derision as Ayn Rand, author of the mega-selling The Founlainhead, published in 1943, and Atlas Shrugged, in 1957. Astoundingly. more than 25 million cop­ies of Rand's hooks have been sold. Atlas Shrugged is one of the most influential works of the 20th century. In a survey of hooks that made the most difference in people's lives, it ranked number two. be...