Objectivist movement
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The Objectivist movement is a movement of individuals who seek to study and advance Objectivism, the philosophy expounded by novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand. The movement began informally in the 1950s a
Ayn Rand in 1957
Yaron Brook was executive director of ARI from 2000 to 2017.
Ayn Rand
Leonard Peikoff delivered lectures on Objectivism throughout the 1970s.
The Fountainhead
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The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-born American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success. The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an intransigent young architect who battles again
Objectivist movement
…Ayn Rand. The movement began informally in the 1950s and consisted of students who were brought together by their mutual interest in Rand's novel The Fountainhead. The group, ironically named "The Collective" due to their actual advocacy of individualism, in part consisted of Leonard Peikoff, Nathaniel Branden…
Cover of the first edition
In writing the character of Howard Roark, Rand was inspired by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Patricia Neal played Dominique Francon in the film adaptation.