CliffsNotes: Rand's Atlas Shrugged
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- Full Title: CliffsNotes: Rand's Atlas Shrugged
- Author(s): Andrew Bernstein
- Year Published: 2000
- Publisher: IDG Books Worldwide
- Publication Type: Commercial
- ISBN: 0-7645-8556-8 (paperback)
- Description: This volume is one of three entries for Rand novels in this popular series of study guides. This paricular guide covers Rand's fourth and final novel, Atlas Shrugged. The same author also wrote the CliffsNotes guides to Anthem and The Fountainhead.
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To save space, the subsections for each chapter review have been omitted. They all follow the same pattern of "Summary," "Commentary" and "Glossary," in that order.
- Life and Background of the Author
- Personal Background
- Career Highlights
- Rand's Philosophy: Objectivism
- Introduction to the Novel
- Introduction
- A Brief Synopsis
- List of Characters
- Character Map
- Critical Commentaries
- Part One: Chapter 1 -- The Theme
- Part One: Chapter 2 -- The Chain
- Part One: Chapter 3 -- The Top and the Bottom
- Part One: Chapter 4 -- The Immovable Movers
- Part One: Chapter 5 -- The Climax of the d'Anconias
- Part One: Chapter 6 -- The Non-Commercial
- Part One: Chapter 7 -- The Exploiters and the Exploited
- Part One: Chapter 8 -- The John Galt Line
- Part One: Chapter 9 -- The Sacred and the Profane
- Part One: Chapter 10 -- Wyatt's Torch
- Part Two: Chapter 1 -- The Man Who Belonged on Earth
- Part Two: Chapter 2 -- The Aristocracy of Pull
- Part Two: Chapter 3 -- White Blackmail
- Part Two: Chapter 4 -- The Sanction of the Victim
- Part Two: Chapter 5 -- Account Overdrawn
- Part Two: Chapter 6 -- Miracle Metal
- Part Two: Chapter 7 -- The Moratorium on Brains
- Part Two: Chapter 8 -- By Our Love
- Part Two: Chapter 9 -- The Face Without Pain or Fear or Guilt
- Part Two: Chapter 10 -- The Sign of the Dollar
- Part Three: Chapter 1 -- Atlantis
- Part Three: Chapter 2 -- The Utopia of Greed
- Part Three: Chapter 3 -- Anti-Greed
- Part Three: Chapter 4 -- Anti-Life
- Part Three: Chapter 5 -- Their Brothers' Keepers
- Part Three: Chapter 6 -- The Concerto of Deliverance
- Part Three: Chapter 7 -- "This Is John Galt Speaking"
- Part Three: Chapter 8 -- The Egoist
- Part Three: Chapter 9 -- The Generator
- Part Three: Chapter 10 -- In the Name of the Best Within Us
- Character Analyses
- John Galt
- Dagny Taggart
- Hank Rearden
- Francisco d'Anconia
- James Taggart
- Critical Essays
- The Role of the Mind in Human Life
- The Role of the Common Man in Atlas Shrugged
- The Eddie Willers Story
- CliffsNotes Review
- CliffsNotes Resource Center
- Index
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