Rand was right.  A refreshing glimmer of hope.

I read today that Ayn Rand’s magnum opus Atlas Shrugged is once again climbing the sales charts as people rediscover the novel’s prophetic description of a world brought to the brink of destruction by government control.  The affordable paperback currently sits at #44 on the Amazon sales ranking, and the Ayn Rand institute reports that sales have tripled thus far in 2009 over their 2008 pace, noting that 2008 was the best sales year ever at 200,000 copies.  Not too freakin’ bad for a novel first published in 1957!!!

“Americans are flocking to buy and read ‘Atlas Shrugged’ because there are uncanny similarities between the plot-line of the book and the events of our day” said Yaron Brook, Executive Director at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. “Americans are rightfully concerned about the economic crisis and government’s increasing intervention and attempts to control the economy. Ayn Rand understood and identified the deeper causes of the crisis we’re facing, and she offered, in ‘Atlas Shrugged,’ a principled and practical solution consistent with American values.”