![]() He cares about designing to his standards and being faithful to his vision of what a building should be, how that changes based on the materials available, and what the building is being designed for. Unyielding and unwavering commitment to principle is why Roark won’t budge. ![]() Doesn’t she know there is more to life than money? The virtue of… selfishness? The reckless and greedy pursuit of gain as an ideal? How awful. And why wouldn’t she be? She wrote, in addition to her fiction, books titled The Virtue of Selfishness and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. Rand is a hero in many minds and a villain in many more. It tells the story of an impoverished architecture school dropout, Howard Roark, and how he navigates-or fails to navigate-the New York architecture scene. On this day in 1943, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead was published. (Photo by Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Getty Peikoff holding an inscription that Ayn Rand wrote in a copy of the 'Fountainhead' to her husband Frank. When the government found out that he kept two pages they sent an agent out to confiscate the pages from a framed display in his home. donated all but two pages of the original manuscript of 'The Fountainhead' to the Library Of Congress. (IRVINE)––Leonard Peikoff inherited the works, manuscripts and notes from Philosopher Ayn Rand. ![]()
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