Department of Labor recommends Atlas Shrugged - Galt's Gulch

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Department of Labor recommends Atlas Shrugged

Posted by sdesapio 10 years, 1 month ago to Books

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Posted by Zenphamy 10 years, 1 month ago

And 'The Anthem'. Someone reported that AS is the second most influential book in America, behind the Bible.

I wonder if anyone in DoL has read the book?

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  Posted by MikeMarotta 10 years, 1 month ago
  
  That was a 1998 poll by Modern Library. It was an open poll: no way to control voting. The editors themselves also listed the most influential books and included nothing by Rand.
  
  Best Non-fiction. Board chose "The Education of Henry Adams." Readers chose "The Virtue of Selfishness."
  http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100...
  
  Best Fiction. Board chose "Ulysses" and "The Great Gatsby". Readers chose "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead."
  http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100...
  
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  Posted by khalling 10 years, 1 month ago
  
  when they were young and foolish ;)
  then they rejected it later when they were just foolish
  
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Posted by Lucky 10 years, 1 month ago

On the whole a good list.
Not only Atlas Shrugged but Anthem are on it, so is Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom, and Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt.
I see some rubbish too. I did not know that the Webbs were influential in America (industrial Democracy), if so their book has a place as its proposition has been wiped out by subsequent events.

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Posted by khalling 10 years, 1 month ago

well, actually, the managing publisher of The Blaze. Wonder how they slipped that in there...

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  Posted by overmanwarrior 10 years, 1 month ago
  
  No doubt. That is interesting, somebody likely didn't know what the book was about at the Department of Labor, but maybe--just maybe there is someone there who is a fan and is being fair.
  
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  Posted by MikeMarotta 10 years, 1 month ago
  
  I found that, also:
  Benjamin Weingarten,
  Publishing Manager at The Blaze
  
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Posted by sjatkins 10 years, 1 month ago

Now that is funny. Highly ironic.

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Posted by MorganTolbert 10 years, 1 month ago

But did you read the description of the novel?

"Atlas Shrugged . . . takes place in a dystopian U.S., one where industrial leaders disappear, depriving the government of their taxes and eliminating the livelihoods they sustained."

So that's the ultimate moral purpose of Dagny, Rearden, D'Anconia, Galt, et al.: to pay taxes in order to sustain the livelhoods of those who live on those taxes!

And to think I had it wrong all these years . . .

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