And she excommunicated him over a disagreement concerning monetary policy.
Ayn Rand eventually excommunicated those who disagreed with her on one thing or another. She was left with a clutch of toadying disciples who hung on her every word.
In the end, Rand turned out to be little better than one of the "mystics of mind" whom she claimed to despise.
Ayn Rand seemed to have a thinly disguised hatred of people.
Her only admiration are reserved for power. All her heroes are Neitzchian Übermensch types.
8.1% really? That's too high. It's true that some people may have said “yes” just out of familiarity with the book although they didn't read it, or for some other reason. However, I've done the Atlas Shrugged poll two years in a row and received the exact same number. I'm not a statistician but I think this (having a sample twice as large) would help shrink my margin of error significantly.
My website being old. Sorry it's not a blog. I update it when I can but this is news on my site that is fresh as of today.
Handing out copies of Atlas Shrugged: I know a guy in Hollywood that bought 5,000 copies of the book and will give you a couple hundred to hand out if you promise to distribute them to people free of charge. (no making a profit—very ironic I guess).
Please tell Republicans, libertarians and conservatives about the philosophy of Objectivism. Freedom activists should upgrade to Objectivism the most advanced and powerful ideological weaponry to fight statism.
The person you are referring to was Murray Rothbard not Alan Greenspan, and it was about another issue unrelated to economics.