This is a mystery story, not about the murder - and rebirth - of man’s spirit. You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions. Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life - from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy - to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction - to the philosopher who becomes a pirate - to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph - to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad - to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels. Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor - and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? '10/57' date is at bottom of front panel as called for and the back flap features the required address of the publisher at the bottom after 'Random House, Inc.This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Binding with mild edge wear.įirst state dust jacket with mild edge wear, including light foxing to verso and top edges as well as some rubbing along the rear outer spine joint.

Clean interior, save for small p/o address label to front end paper. Teal green cloth with gilt titling, blocked in black, to spine. The novel ends with the strikers planning to build a new capitalist society based on Galt's philosophy of reason and individualism.' - Wiki Dagny and Hank discover that a mysterious figure called John Galt is persuading other business leaders to abandon their companies and disappear as a strike of productive individuals against the looters.

Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and her lover, steel magnate Hank Rearden, struggle against 'looters' who want to exploit their productivity.

'The book depicts a dystopian United States in which private businesses suffer under increasingly burdensome laws and regulations. Item #13221 A handsome 1st printing of Rand's Objectivist philosophical classic.

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