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Alisa Rosenbaum ( Russian ) lived in Saint Petersburg . largely non-observant Jews .

Alisa Rosenbaum ( Russian ) lived in Saint Petersburg . largely non-observant Jews . Rand's father was a successful pharmacist, owning his own pharmacy building Rand was twelve at the time of the Russian Revolution of 1917

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Alisa Rosenbaum ( Russian ) lived in Saint Petersburg . largely non-observant Jews .

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  1. Alisa Rosenbaum (Russian) • lived in Saint Petersburg. • largely non-observant Jews. • Rand's father was a successful pharmacist, owning his own pharmacy building • Rand was twelve at the time of the Russian Revolution of 1917 • Rand's family life was disrupted by the rise of the Bolshevik party under Vladimir Lenin. • pharmacy was confiscated by the Bolsheviks • family fled to the Crimea • Returned to Petrograd – family nearly starved

  2. College and Beyond • October 1924: graduated from college • 1925 came to America • 1929 married Frank O’Connor • 1943 The Fountainhead • 1957 Atlas Shrugged • Objectivism: "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."[

  3. LEGACY • 1991 survey conducted for the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club: asked club members what the most influential book in the respondent's life was. • Rand's Atlas Shrugged was the second most popular choice, after the Bible. • 25 million copies sold as of 2007[ • another 800,000 sold in 2008. • FAMOUS PEOPLE INFLUENCED BY RAND: - Mark Cuban: owner Dallas Mavericks - Neil Peart of Rush - Terry Goodkind - Cal Ripkin, Jr.

  4. 1933/1935-36 Broadway hit • inspired by the death of the "Match King", IvarKreuger • takes place entirely in a court room and is centered on a murder trial • man's ability to regard oneself as important and exist in a society where moral decay is ever prevalent

  5. Do not hide behind such superficialities as whether you should or should not give a dime to a beggar. That is not the issue. The issue is whether you do or do not have the right to exist without giving him that dime. The issue is whether you must keep buying your life, dime by dime, from any beggar who might choose to approach you. The issue is whether the need of others is the first mortgage on your life and the moral purpose of your existence. The issue is whether man is to be regarded as a sacrificial animal.

  6. Any man of self-esteem will answer: “No.” • Altruism says: “Yes.” • Rand in Our Culture

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