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<\/a>Ayn Rand has enjoyed almost cult following ever since she burst on the scene. Her fans are aplenty. I still remember that her books were the staple of many in my college times. But what or how was she?<\/p>\nShe was proud, grouchy, vindictive, insulting, dismissive, and rash. (One former associate called her \u201cthe Evel Knievel of leaping to conclusions.\u201d) But she was also idealistic, yearning, candid, worshipful, precise, and improbably charming.\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Interestingly, although she claimed she could figure out the \u201centire philosophy of life\u201d of someone through what he found sexually attractive, yet she did not want people to get into her history. Her thought, she would claim was not dependent on her relationships and family etc. But was that so?\u00a0 She lived in Soviet Union and was badly affected by the excesses of the Bolshevik party.<\/p>\n
Btw, she was a Russian and born Alisa Zinov\u2019yevna Rosenbaum.\u00a0 Rand was probably a Cyrillic contraction of her birth surname while Ayn was a Finnish name that she adopted for her writing career.<\/p>\n
Have you read Ayn Rand?\u00a0 if so, do you have an opinion?<\/p>\n
Reference Links:<\/b>
\nThe One Argument Ayn Rand Couldn\u2019t Win \u2014 New York Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n
Tags: AynRand<\/a>, Fountainhead<\/a><\/p>\n
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