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Business that she was inspired in the cinema what she saw on the screen to go to a place where she can live a life and pursue her dreams. She came here did not speak a word of english she wrote screenplays and books and then of course she wrote the epic novels that you know the fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Between those two books she wrote and thumb which is a novel that we chose to adapt as a graphic novel. We will get into that but what was her philosophy . Why is she still relevant among Society Today if you watch washington politics lately what we are seeing is entitlement the rich are to blame. The 1 percent causes the problem in society. The hatred for the good of being good we see the epidemic that greed that she defines it as a desire for the unearned. We are in a moral moment as a country where capitalism is questioned on the fundamental basis of fairness. That is why people are searching for answers and to challenge all of those ideas and those values. She saw first hand
Spit tonight here at the National Security editor of washington post. In the jig zhivago affair which was a finalist. Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in the rfk Journalism Award and his non fiction credentials are established. He is here to present his latest book of nonfiction and escape from nazi germany. [applause] i am delighted to be here. My book is about the women in uniform about the nazis. And with the outbreak of war and captures september 1944. And the friend of gerties daughter. But one of them is that when she was captured and then to be informed by the military that his wife was a prisoner of war the first two words were poor germans. [laughter] and it is a character study for me. And that is the philosophy that goes up to tragedy so looking at the background and then to lead up to the service of world war ii and capture. And from extraordinary wealthy American Family that went back well into Early American History and one of her ancestors was the colonial governor
Who was ayn rand quick. She is an immigrant in 19 oh five she and her two Little Sisters witnessed the Russian Revolution when she was 12 after the revolution the day came in and took their business in their home they struggled but she was inspired by what she saw that there was a possibility to go to a place to pursue her dreams and came here just six years after the franchise to vote and worked many different jobs she wrote screenplays and books and that epic novel of the fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and those that we chose to adapt as a graphic novel. But who is her philosophy why is she still relevant today to see what we see a lot of entitlement the rich are to blame the 1 percent caused the problems in society it is an epidemic that ayn rand called greed as it was the desire for the unearned so as a country where capitalism is in question are the fundamental basics because she challenged all of those ideas and those values and saw firsthand what collectivism had brought and de
Around the time of the inauguration of 2001, whether or not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she had started in texas. The texas book is full. He said there isnt yet there will be. So we came up with the idea of how to put together a National Book festival, the idea was to put it into a normal, intense. It turned out that getting sponsorships was more difficult than they had thought it would be. So he asked me if i would get involved. I told him i would do so. I began to be a sponsor and a cochair of the event. I did that now for maybe ten years or so. Its very important to me that the book festival does well and i enjoyed a great deal. Its really great gift for the country to have this National Book festival as you probably know we can about 200,000 people coming on the day of the festival every year. This year is going to be labor day weekend. The saturday of labor day weekend. Peter slen what is the madison counsel that you reference. David rubenstein the lib