look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. now on booktv gary weiss explore the political and social ideologies of ayn rand author of the fountain head and atlas shrugged. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] thank you for that warm and flattering introduction. it is interesting if you listen carefully to margaret s introduction, you will notice you might ask yourself why did i write a book about ayn rand. after all i am not a philosophy professor. nor am i an economist. these are the areas ayn rand was best known. she was a philosopher and she heavily influenced economic and political thought. my background is writing about wall street. in particular the underside of wall street. what got me interested in ayn rand was the 2008 financial crisis. i was writing an article on to wasn t alan greenspan it was timothy geithner, one of his major influences was alan greenspan. one of his mentor
she was a philopher. i know there are some ople apioeryy she wn t she il nenced economic and political faults. my background is in writing about wall street, and in particular the underside of wall street. at mitrestrand was the 2008 financial crisis i was writing an article on actually it wasn t alan greenspan that was timoy ane tiyghns the new ok fed, rifs al greenspan. alan greenspan was one of his mentors and one of his closest associates. and in the course of my research for that article, i found a photographo enspan bi col cicdrs in 1974. this was in the oval office, and standing right there was ayn rand, and it ealfasced c nvr ly thought that ayn rand was quite the central to our political belief system but as i began to carry out research i began to anhwimtar is in a number of areas and the area that interested me the most rewned 2008i started to look into the financial crisis in rticular i was trying t oo cr, diepo were coming you know, sort of the actors, the main