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
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
And comparing it to other cultures which arent as functional. We gave some examples and that immediately caused a firestorm. Sunday night at 8 00 pm eastern on cspans q a. Jennifer grossman, who was ayn rand . Ayn rand was an immigrant, she was born Alyssa Rosenbaum in 1905. She and her sister witnessed the Russian Revolution when she was 12 from the window of her parents apartment. After the revolution the communists came and took her parentss business, all their money him of their home. She wandered and struggled. She was inspired by what she saw on screen that there was a possibility to go to a place where she could live her life and pursue her dreams. She came here six years after women got the franchise to vote. She worked many jobs, she became a writing machine, she wrote screen plays, she wrote books, then she wrote of course you pick novel the we know her best buy, the fountain head and Atlas Shrugged. Between those two books, she wrote anthem, a short dystopian scifi novel whi
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
After the revolution the communist came and took her parents business they wandered and struggled she was inspired by what she saw that there was up possibility that they would live their life and pursue her dreams and that place was america. She barely spoke a word of english. The epic novel that we know her best buy the fountainhead in between those two books she wrote in them which was a short scifi novel and thats when we chose to adapt with the graphic novel. What was her philosophy. She still relevant among a segment of society today. You been watching politics lately what we are seeing a lot of his entitlement the 1 are the ones that are causing the problems in our society. We are seeing an epidemic of envy which they called the hatred of the good. We are seen epidemic of greed not is as its popular and as the desire. In a moral moment as a country a very fundamental space of fairness. People are searching for answers. They challenged all of those ideas and all of those values.