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A Brand New York Times Notable Book A Chicago Tribune Beloved Book of the Entire Year A Bay Area Chronicle Best Book of the YearAyn Rand’s publications have drawn three decades of visitors, formed the Libertarian movement, affected White House fiscal plans through the Reagan years and beyond, and impressed the Tea-Party movement. However twenty eight years after her death, visitors understand hardly any about her life. In this seminal resource, Anne D. Heller traces the questionable author’s living from her youth in Bolshevik Russia to her years as a Hollywood screenwriter, the book of her hit books, and the fall and rise of the conspiracy that worshipped her in the 1960s and 1950s. Centered on initial research in Spain and results of interviews with Rand’s associates and former acolytes, Ayn Rand and the Planet She Created is just a thorough and eye-opening picture of 1 of the very unbelievable and substantial numbers of the twentieth-century.