Apparently Atlas Shrugged continues to be very popular:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged
In the wake of the late 2000s recession sales of Atlas Shrugged have sharply increased, according to The Economist magazine and The New York Times. The Economist reported that the fifty-two-year-old novel ranked #33 among Amazon.com's top-selling books on January 13, 2009.[8]
Interestingly the antiwar libertarian Justin Raimondo suggests that Rand might have done a bit of plagiarising. John Galt is in Atlas Shrugged!
Justin Raimondo has observed similarities between Atlas Shrugged and the 1922 novel The Driver, written by Garet Garrett,[14] which concerns an idealized industrialist named Henry Galt, who is a transcontinental railway owner trying to improve the world and fighting against government and socialism. I
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