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The Virtue of Selfishness: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
A fiftieth-anniversary Signet paperback of Ayn Rand's 1964 essay collection, written with Nathaniel Branden and promoted as the moral handbook of Objectivism. Rand argues that self-interest is a virtue, altruism a destructive creed, and rational egoism the basis of a free society. Whether you find it liberating or repellent, the book is a document you have to contend with if you want to understand late-twentieth-century American individualism. The prose is urgent, absolutist, and deliberately anti-ironic. Signet priced it to move, and it did. Ideal reader: someone who suspects morality could use an audit, or someone who wants to know what the argument actually says before dismissing it.
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