Behind Many Powerful Men, One Will Find the Work of Ayn Rand — Even to This Day
One of the best features of Alexandra Popoff’s short biography of the writer is that she never quite leaves Rand’s Russian Jewish background behind — as is befitting a book in Yale’s ‘Jewish Lives’ series.
‘Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success’
By Alexandra Popoff
Yale University Press, 264 pages
The philosopher and novelist of supreme selfishness, the antagonist of altruism, the scourge of communist and collectivist ideology, the proponent of unfettered capitalism, the Russian Jew who renounced religion and aggressively advocated atheism: Ayn Rand receives her due in this concise and compelling biography.
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