Resumo de The Passion Of Ayn Rand

Barbara Branden's thoroughly worthless and utterly biased account of
the life and times of the American author Ayn Rand is sufficient
evidence to show that those who are closest to the author should NEVER,
EVER write their biographies. First of all, she wastes a lot of time by
explaining her and her husband's relationship to the author and while
the reader of this review may think this a harsh way to begin reviewing
a book I want you to consider the following. Namely, that since one of
Rand's supposed values was Objectivism or Objectivity, how can someone
so close to her who was by her own admission so shaped by her
philosophy be objective at all when telling her story.
As for Rand herself it is without question that her years in Russia
under a harsh, brutal communist regime shaped her outlook for her
entire life. Deprived of the many possessions and freedoms under such a
system she wrongfully blamed the state and what she termed Collectivism
for everything that befell her and her family during this time instead
of pointing to the true devil in the details; Communism. Naturally
every system of government or society is only as infallible as the
people not only who run it but also the people who LIVE UNDER IT.
Fleeing Russia as soon as the chance became available it was not long
before the self-centred and selfishRand was keeping her adoptive family
up nights, bashing away at her typewriter as she knocked out one story
after the other. That she took jobs reading scripts that by her own
admission she didn't really care at all for and only thought about
ideas for her own stories and novels once again underscores her selfish
and egocentric character. Ultimately though her failure as an author
(despite all her book sales) derives from her inability to take
criticism as well as her inability to see that others think differently
to her and to this end she spent most of her life attempting to
brainwash those closest to her into adopting her philosophy. And
although she succeeded in some cases this only goes to the point of the
lack of intelligence of her friends, nothing more. A far better author
can be found in the persona of George Orwell who actually wrote from
life experience instead of vague whimsical intellectual airy-fairy
ideals. On a concluding note, Rand also utterly fails to understand
Roosevelt's New Deal which she falsely labels as Socialist.

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