Atlas Shrugged - 50th Anniversary Edition

New York: Signet Books, 1996. Number-line at copyright begins w/35. Moderate shelf wear. Pages fine. Bind good. Interestingly, and somewhat questionably, image of Atlas sculpture at the Rockefeller center used for cover. Also, includes a new introduction by Leonard Piekoff, and, a reader's guide to Rand's writings and Objectivist philosophy. Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex. Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction...to the philosopher who becomes a pirate...to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the lowest track worker in her train tunnels. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller. 1079 pages.. 50th Anniversary Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.