[whodathunkit]

The thing about great literature is that it is timeless.

I agree with your post, ML/NJ.

Trains, cigarettes, chrome, etc., all are props and have modern equivalents.
I find it easy to explicate the 50 year old references as I read.
Who is John Galt?
(Francisco tells her the road to understanding leads to Atlantis - Publius post1)
Where is Atlantis?
These are questions pertaining to a destination or ending, however, the true value of Atlas Shrugged is in the journey. Rand is blazing a trail for us to follow.

[Travis McGee]

Please read replies 11 and 24. I think it's great that Rand is still appreciated. It's just frustrating to see literary archaeologists fixated on the ancient while ignoring the current.

[Travis McGee]

It has only reached Amazon, so the 2 reviews are by folks who bought the books elsewhere and reviewed it on Amazon anyway.

I only post this review snippet because it relates to the thread.

Which Constitution?, May 23, 2009 By Nelson Hultberg (Dallas, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME) Will America survive as a "sovereign nation," or will the Orwellian dream of one-world government be the fate of our children? This is the ominous issue facing America in the 21st century; it transcends all other concerns. In Foreign Enemies and Traitors, Matt Bracken has created a brilliant Atlas Shrugged like narrative of how this issue might play out amidst the economic meltdown now consuming us. Conservatives and libertarians throughout America will take to this tale like the colonists took to Tom Paine in 1776.