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Title: A brilliant book?
Review: Mrs. O'Connor's (nee Rosenbaum) "The Virtue of Selfishness" is an unoriginal, hopelessly confused, ruthlessly illogical presentation of a morality that has never been thought legitimate by anyone past adolescence: a morality of pure self-interest, which expressly forbids direct concern for the well-being of anyone but oneself and calls the result "virtue." Many people are incapable of questioning the stale doctrine of false autonomy they learned in O'Connor's books or in Objectivist study groups. It is precisely to encourage that type of mentality that Mrs. O'Connor wrote her "treatise" - which is actually no such thing, but merely a collection of short topical essays by two "giants" who considered themselves not bound by "conventional" morality: Mrs. O'Connor herself, and her adulterous lover Nathan Blumenthal ("Nathaniel Branden"), twenty-five years her junior.
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