... is a love story about a woman who sought her highest ideal and swore to kill him.
Dagny Taggart is heiress to a transcontinental railroad built by a 19th century robber baron. Brilliant and ruthless, her first job with the railroad was as night dispatcher at a rural station close to the college where she studied engineering. Twelve years later, her incompetent brother is the president of the corporation. Her position as vice president of operations gives her the leverage to keep the line running.

Her work is her focus. Her first lover abandoned her and his own career to become a playboy. Her public image is of a cold, austere business executive who is unmoved by emotions, either hers or of those around her. Yet she harbors a passion for the perfect man, her ideal.

Meanwhile, the nation has been slipping into an unaccountable economic depression.

It is not just that most of the regions of the world are impoverished, socialized, and nationalized. It is not just the continuing drumroll of regulations from the Washington government. Some additional force is at work, as if shutting off the motor of innovation and invention. Great businesses are closing. Their key producers are retiring, quitting, disappearing. Dagny Taggart senses that a single actor is at work - and she promises to track him down and kill him.

Sorry i got dander up. But i didn't post anything i was reading others post and it said i made 3 post. and i guess i just have to be more careful at what i'm looking at.

Newbie. Posted 3 times. Hope they come back.

Yes he should.