Category: The Fountainhead

Howard Roark, a brilliant young architect, is expelled from his architecture school for refusing to follow the schools outdated traditions. He goes to New York to work for Henry Cameron, a disgraced architect whom Roark admires. Roarks schoolmate, Peter Keating, moves to New York and goes to work for the prestigious architectural firm Francon &…

Yikes. Wow. Set aside the philosophical arguments. Please. The Fountainhead is a masterpiece, integrating theme and plot; characterization; and writing craftsmenship together in one tightly wrapped story that will remain in the hearts and minds of the American culture as the Mt. Rushmore of a New Age. An individual fighting for survival in a society…

What 1950s dystopian novel contained a scene where frustrated factory workers sabotage the machinery to prevent it from falling into the wrong handas? Probably the last book youd think of is 1957s Atlas Shrugged by divisive figure Ayn Rand. Trying to classify her novel is hard its a massive, weighty thing, one part sci-fi-mystery-romance, one…