The Fountainhead

By: Rand, Ayn

Book Overview

The story of a gifted architect, his struggle against conventional standards, and his violent love affair. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0073XUUUW
• ISBN13: 9780808519386
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 4.2" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

The Ayn Rand Institute: For Advancement of Objectivism

Howard Roark, a struggling architect, must compete with meritocracy and the system. He has no intention of corrupting his principles. The world (good guys and bad guys) plans to do that for him. So, he finds a unique solution. I have read the book, seen the movie (1949, Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, and Raymond Massey), and listened to the audiotapes. Each medium gives a different feel to her story and brings out the underlying message in different ways. If this is your first Ayn Rand book, then either you are in high school (where they think this is the pinnacle of her work) or you started in the middle of her forming of Objectivism through a series of books; this includes other books such as "We the Living". She knew something was wrong but did not know what it was. In "The Fountainhead", she puts her finger on the symptoms and rebels against them. In "Atlas Shrugged”, she finally identifies the source of the problem, and even if it seems like a surrealistic story, she offers concrete solutions. Out of this process, Objectivism was born.