Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged (1970, Signet)
Published Nov. 1, 1970 by Signet.
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.
This would've been a 5 star rating for me if I had stopped at the end of Part II. Part III just went off the rails to support Rand's philosophy and not support telling a good story.
