When Rand explained that, at one level, Atlas Shrugged was to provide a moral defense of capitalism, the editorial staff responded, "But that would mean challenging 3,000 years of Judeo-Christian tradition." Their depth of philosophical insight impressed Ayn Rand, and she decided that Random House was the company to publish her book.Ītlas Shrugged furthers the theme of individualism that Ayn Rand developed in The Fountainhead. On the contrary, Rand conducted an intellectual auction among competing publishers, finally deciding on Random House because its editorial staff had the best understanding of the book.
Publishers knew that her fiction would sell, and consequently they bid for the right to publish her next book.Ītlas Shrugged, although enormously controversial, had no difficulty finding a publisher. With the success of The Fountainhead a decade earlier and its subsequent production as a Hollywood film starring Gary Cooper in 1949, her stature as an author was established. Rand was already a famous, best-selling author by the time she published Atlas Shrugged. With its publication in 1957, the author accomplished everything she wanted to in the realm of fiction the rest of her career as a writer was devoted to nonfiction. The Role of the Common Man in Atlas Shrugged: The Eddie Willers StoryĪtlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's masterpiece and the culmination of her career as a novelist.The Role of the Mind in Human Life in Atlas Shrugged.Babej writes, "all signs point to the fact that the mere existence of the movie is causing interest in the book to spike to new heights. So I was intrigued to see this write-up in Forbes about how the film has already spurred Atlas to the Amazon bestseller list (it is #21 today). Harvey Jason of Mystery Pier Books in West Hollywood told me at the time that all the movie hype "does help because it brings the title to prominence." But, he added, "it has to be a literary high spot to begin with."Īs many of you know, Ayn Rand's conservative classic, Atlas Shrugged, was released into theaters last Friday (Tax Day!). The consensus seemed to be that only if the film was great would book sales surge. I asked antiquarian booksellers whether a good film adaptation had any effect on book sales. Back in 2008, I wrote a short article for FB&C on the stellar season of award-winning films that were based on books (it was the year of Atonement, No Country for Old Men, Into the Wild, and others).
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