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 One of the 20th century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three characters: Howard Roarke, the genius who is resented because he creates purely for the delight of his own work and on no other terms; Gail Wynand, the newspaper mogul and self-made millionaire whose power was bought by sacrificing his ideals to the lowest common denominator of public taste; and Dominique Francon, the devastating beauty whose desperate search for meaning has been twisted, through despair, into a quest to destroy the single object of her desire: Howard Roarke. Dramatic, poetic, and demanding, The Fountainhead remains one of the towering books on the contemporary intellectual scene.©1943 The Bobbs-Merrill Company; 1968 Ayn Rand; 1993 Leonard Peikoff (P)1994 Blackstone Audio Inc. Classics Thought-Provoking Inspiring

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"Ayn Rand is a writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly." ( New York Times Book Review)
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Very Interesting albeit long book about Creators vs Second Handers. Lot of food for thought and contemplation.

Creator vs Second Hander

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This is a life changing book. It is long. It is its own world a very well fleshed out world. After all it took Ayn Rand 7 years to write this masterpiece during which she even wrote Anthem a truly amazing short book.

The amount of complex characters is mind boggling.
The book spans nearly 20 years and after a few hours you will feel like this was the real world. It is so believable that you get lost in it. You get to fall in love and hate characters. You feel pain as they feel pain. You are disgusted by some and despise others. You feel for some and disregard others. They feel like real people growing old dying interacting with each other and the world that they inhabit.

I have no yet read Atlas Shrugged but if it is true that it is better than this... well I can't wait.

The politics. This book represents the problem that has been looming over the world for the past century. The problem of Collectivism. Ayn Rand was either a time traveler or could see the future because what she described happened and is still happening.

We see it in media nowadays we see it in movies comics games and any form of art that people enjoy.
Mediocre people are placed into leading roles to ruin any form of art and form of human greatness. To make it mediocre awful disgusting and lame.
We live in the world Ayn Rand Describes but Ellsworth Toohey won. Him and his kind rule the world they took over long ago and they are not letting go of the power they hold.
They put the Rourkes of this world in jail they murdered them they canceled them thei ruined them.

We have to stand against the second handers the Tooheys of this world and win it back before its too late.

Freedom is not given. It is won by force.

Life Changing

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Loved it! Brilliantly written and filled with personalities we all know and both love and hate.

Amazing book about principles and work ethics

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Performance matches the feeling of the book. Fantastic. Throughly enjoyed, I’m glad I’ve read this

Worth it

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I have been fined for speeding listening to this book for sure, twice. Good voice and articulation.

Excellent reader. Addictive.

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