[lbo-talk] Happy 50th, 'Atlas Shrugged'!

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Sun Sep 16 01:05:07 PDT 2007



>On reflection, I thought this Randian Fantasy Island sounded a lot
>like Taliesin West in Scottsdale, AZ, the winter home and
>architectural "school" (read: sweatshop) of Frank Lloyd Wright, one of
>the 20th century's greatest egomaniacs and bunko artists. ...
>
> "The architect hero Howard Roark of Ayn
>Rand's Fountainhead is generally thought to be based on Wright,
>although both Rand and Wright denied this."
>
That's what I always heard. If memory serves, Stalin's daught (Svetlana?) went to live at Taliesin and left disgusted some years later, saying something like "I had enough of that kind of living in Russia. No more."

Joanna



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