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050 0 0 _aPS3535.A547
_bZ68 2009
082 1 _a92 RAN
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100 1 _aHeller, Anne Conover
245 1 0 _aAyn Rand and the world she made
_c/ Anne C. Heller
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York
_b: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
_c, c2009
300 _a567 p.
_b: illus.
_c; 24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aA comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century - from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.
546 _aEnglish.
600 1 4 _aRand, Ayn
_d(, 1905-1982)
650 4 _aNovelist, American
_y-20th century
_x-Biography
650 4 _aPhilosophers
_z-United States
_v--Biography
942 _cMO
999 _c269976
_d269976