This offer applies to only one downloadable audio per purchase. It is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller. By 1984 more than five million copies of atlas shrugged had been sold, and in a 1991 library of congress survey americans named it second only to the bible as the book that had most influenced their lives. Excellent book especially for listening long great story and very insightful. Atlas shrugged includes elements of science fiction, mystery, and romance, and it contains rands most extensive statement of objectivism in any of her works of fiction the book depicts a dystopian united. There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteenyearolds life. In a regimented world, where the word i no longer exists, one defiant man rediscovers the meaning of individualism.
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