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"Splendid. . . . A cleanly and compellingly written biography of one of the strangest, most controversial and most widely read writers of the 20th century." --"San Francisco Chronicle
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"A thoughtful, flesh-and-blood portrait of an extremely complicated and self-contradictory woman, coupling this character study with literary analysis and plumbing the quirkier depths of Rand's prodigious imagination." --"The New York Times "
"Heller does a remarkable job with a subject who was almost cripplingly complex--a real woman starring in her own propaganda film." --"New York "magazine
"[An] outstanding biography that reveals much about a figure who to this point has been chronicled only by biased disciples." --"Washington Monthly "
"Dramatic and very timely." --"The New York Times Book Review "
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"Offer[s] ammunition for fans and skeptics alike." --"The Washington Post "
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"A thoroughly researched, immensely readable portrait of a sui generis thinker who was fiercely committed to her ideals yet whose life contained fascinating contradictions." --"The Wall Street Journal"'s Speakeasy
"The champion of individuality who insisted on obedience and conformity from her followers (including Alan Greenspan), Rand emerges from Heller's superbly vivid, enlightening, and affecting biography in all her paradoxical power." --"Booklist" (starred review)
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"Engrossing and unsparing, an excellent introductory course on Rand written with a shrewd eye." --"New York Post "
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"The exploits of Ayn Rand--the Sarah Palin of philosophical fiction--are made more gripping by Anne Heller's refusal to treat her subject as a joke and to accept her as the force she remains in politics (tea partiers) and to each successive generation of selfish undergrads." --Brad Gooch, author of "Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor "and frequent contributor to The Daily Beast""
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"A comprehensive study, in novelistic detail, of Rand's pers
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