Behind Many Powerful Men, One Will Find the Work of Ayn Rand — Even to This Day 

One of the best features of Alexandra Popoff’s short biography of the writer is that she never quite leaves Rand’s Russian Jewish background behind — as is befitting a book in Yale’s ‘Jewish Lives’ series.

Phyllis Cerf/Random House, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo of Ayn Rand used for the first-edition back cover of 'Atlas Shrugged' (1957). Phyllis Cerf/Random House, via Wikimedia Commons

‘Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success’
By Alexandra Popoff
Yale University Press, 264 pages

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