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Review title: Dire, vacuous and bitter.
Product review: This book is a compression of Rand's philosophy with chunks taken from her other works. It achieves its goal in terms of providing a summary of her "philsophical" work, but on the down-side it quickly becomes apparent that she has little to offer. Her understanding of Western philosophy is surprisingly poor - she adores Aristotle and loathes Plato and seems to miss many of the similarities between the two. Worse, her metaphysical claims are the very worst of amateur philosophizing.If you're serious about addressing libertarianism at its best, I recommend you read someone like Nozick instead. He offers intelligent, often compelling arguments for a minimal state, while Rand simply offers slogans, dogma and resentment.
