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Handwritten manuscript by Ayn Rand, one page, 8.5 x 11, being page 173 of a working manuscript for her novel, Atlas Shrugged. The manuscript is essentially identical to the published text, with but a few words differing between the two, leading us to believe that this leaf was from the final manuscript handwritten by Rand. The text, which bears many excisions and additions, is from the latter part of the novel, and describes a conversation between Dagny Taggart and one of her adversaries.
In full: "see that they've got us hogtied? Don't you see that they're holding us by the throat? Don't you know what they can do to us—through this Railroad Poll, or through the Unification Board, or through the moratorium on our bonds?' 'I knew that two years ago.' He was shaking; there was some formless, desperate, almost superstitious quality in his terror, out of proportion to the dangers he named. She felt curiously certain that it came from something deeper than his fear of the bureaucrats' reprisal, that the reprisal was the only identification of it which he would permit himself to know, a reassuring identification which hid him from the truth." In fine condition.
Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged became Ayn Rand’s most famous novel and the defining statement of her philosophy of Objectivism. Its defense of individual achievement, free enterprise, and resistance to government control gave the book an influence far beyond literature, particularly in American political and economic thought. This manuscript page offers a direct connection to the creation of that influential work. The passage comes from the latter part of the novel, where Rand was developing one of its central themes: the growing power of the state over private enterprise and the fear it creates among those caught within the system. Rand's twenty or so additions and deletions also give the reader an indication of the author's train of thought and writing technique as she composed her most famous novel.
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