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The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success. The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an intransigent young architect who battles against conventional standards and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
A 1997 documentary film, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [273] The Passion of Ayn Rand, a 1999 television adaptation of the book of the same name, won several awards. [274] Rand's image also appears on a 1999 U.S. postage stamp illustrated by artist Nick Gaetano. [275]
The Randian hero is a ubiquitous figure in the fiction of 20th-century novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, most famously in the figures of The Fountainhead ' s Howard Roark and Atlas Shrugged ' s John Galt. Rand's self-declared purpose in writing fiction was to project an "ideal man"—a man who perseveres to achieve his values, and only his ...
A book so powerful that Mark Cuban named his mega-yacht after it, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is a must-read for all entrepreneurs, according to the billionaire. In multiple interviews, Cuban ...
Rand's next play, Ideal, went unsold, [38] and a 1940 stage adaptation of We the Living flopped. [39] Rand achieved lasting success and financial stability with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. [40] Woods produced several more plays; none were hits and when he died in 1951, he was bankrupt and living in a hotel. [13] [41]
A revised version of the Yale speech became the title essay of For the New Intellectual, which was published by Random House in 1961. It was the first of several non-fiction volumes collecting Rand's essays and speeches. It was also the last book Rand published with Random House. She left the publisher following a dispute over her next book.
CliffsNotes on Rand's Atlas Shrugged, 2000; CliffsNotes on Rand's The Fountainhead, 2000; The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic, and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire, 2005; Objectivism in One Lesson: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ayn Rand, 2008; Capitalism Unbound: The Incontestable Case for Individual Rights, 2010
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal is a collection of essays, mostly by the philosopher Ayn Rand, with additional essays by her associates Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen. The authors focus on the moral nature of laissez-faire capitalism and private property.