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Highlights
- The Journey of Dagny Taggart offers the most detailed literary analysis of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged yet published.
- Author(s): Frederick H Cookinham
- 478 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, General
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About the Book
The Journey of Dagny Taggart provides a detailed literary analysis of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, a romantic novel about railroad executive Dagny Taggart and other business leaders in a rapidly deteriorating American economy.
Book Synopsis
The Journey of Dagny Taggart offers the most detailed literary analysis of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged yet published. Cookinham works through the novel page by page to explore the many life experiences and locations that influenced her literary development of the novel. Unlike most reviews of Atlas Shrugged, Cookinham says the book should be examined as a romantic novel about the philosophical transition of Dagny Taggart through three love affairs rather than as a political manifesto. Along the way, he examines the many criticisms that have been launched against Rand's literary skills by critics, many of whom probably never read the book, and thoroughly refutes them. He demonstrates through the commentary that Rand is a novelist of extraordinary skill and deserves to be treated as such.
Review Quotes
Frederick Cookinham provides readers with many provocative insights and informative details in this line-by-line interpretive analysis of Atlas Shrugged. This Herculean effort is a worthy companion to Ayn Rand's magnum opus.-Chris Matthew Sciabarra, author, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical; founding coeditor, The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies