Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Allen Barra at The Daily Beast has posted a book review of two new biographies about the life of Ayn Rand: Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller, and Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns. Capitalism’s Wicked Witch – The Daily Beast“Allen Barra thinks we should once and for all recognize her as a fraud and an ideologue with creepy followers.”

Any objectivity about the founder of Objectivism is impossible. I’ll lay my cards on the table—Ayn Rand and her followers have given me the creeps since high school.

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