Despite being a bestseller with more than 7 million copies in print, and having been hailed repeatedly—if not quite accurately—as the second-most influential book in America, it has taken more than 50 ...

Producers of the movie, “Atlas Shrugged,” hope the film might find the same gradual rise to success that the book had. “The book was published back in 1957, and it didn’t receive a lot of critical ...

It's tempting to snipe that the argument of Atlas Shrugged Part II — that the genius of an unregulated free market results in the greatest of all greater goods — is somewhat undone by the chintziness ...

A Russian-American writer who died 30 years ago is still selling hundreds of thousands of books a year, and this week one of her former devotees, Paul Ryan, became Mitt Romney's running mate in the US ...

Hollywood's been beguiled and bedeviled by Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged since it was published in 1957. Fifty years later, why hasn't it been made into a movie? We talk to legendary producer Al Ruddy, ...

Jim Thompson’s paean to Ayn Rand (“What’s the fear of Ayn Rand,” AFN, May 11) redundantly betrays his ignorance. “Atlas Shrugged” is the work of a literary hack who knew nothing about the U.S. economy ...

Ayn Rand was a Russian-born writer who immigrated to the United States in 1926, worked as a screenwriter and playwright and wrote several novels expressing an individualistic philosophy she called ...

The sex scene almost makes it worth sitting through Atlas Shrugged III, the last and least of the cheapjack adaptations of Ayn Rand's brick-thick celebration of taking your ball and going home. About ...

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Hollywood's been sniffing around Atlas Shrugged since Ayn Rand published it in 1957. So why hasn't it been made into a movie? We talk to legendary producer Al Ruddy, the first guy to get the go-ahead ...