Jennifer Burns
Auteur van Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
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Jennifer Burns is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
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- 1975-12-31
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- Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Menlo Park, California, USA - Opleiding
- Harvard College (History)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD|History) - Beroepen
- Assistant Professor of History (University of Virginia.)
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Jennifer Burns has written an absorbing and wonderfully readable biography of Ayn Rand. It is a biography and not an explanation of her ideas. Although sympathetic to Ayn Rand it provides the voices of her many critics. It is very much worth reading for the background it provides on the development of America's right-wing movements. In particular, I was fascinated by the stories about the anti-FDR factions who opposed the New Deal. Also interesting was how her ideas spread and were modified after the schism in the Objectivist movement.
My personal favorite quote about Ayn Rand unfortunately does not appear in the book: “Two novels can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other involves orcs.” [Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”… (meer)