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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com168WHO IS JOHN GALT? 1957–1968Throughout the novel Hank Rearden serves as Rand’s object lesson,her example of philosophy in the real world. Although rational in hisbusiness dealings, in his personal life he is crippled by guilt and a feelingof obligation toward his parasitic family. These feelings also keephim toiling in an economy controlled by his enemies rather than joiningthe strike. Only when Rearden realizes that rationality must extend toall spheres of his life, and that he does not owe either his family or thewider society anything, can he truly be free. Withdrawing the “sanctionof the victim,” he joins Galt’s Gulch. Dagny is a harder case, for she istruly passionate about her railroad. Even after embarking on an affairwith Galt, she resists joining the strike. Only at the end of the novel doesshe realize that she must exercise her business talents on her own terms,not on anyone else’s. When she and Rearden finally join the strike, theending is swift. Without the cooperation of the competent, Rand’s badguys quickly destroy the economy. Irrational, emotional, and dependent,they are unable to maintain the country’s vital industries and useviolence to subdue an increasingly desperate population. At the novel’send they have ushered in a near apocalypse, and the strikers must returnto rescue a crumbling world.Outside of the academic and literary worlds Atlas Shrugged wasgreeted with an enthusiastic reception. The book made Rand a hero tomany business owners, executives, and self-identified capitalists, whowere overjoyed to discover a novel that acknowledged, understood, andappreciated their work. The head of an Ohio-based steel company toldher, “For twenty-five years I have been yelling my head off about thelittle realized fact that eggheads, socialists, communists, professors, andso-called liberals do not understand how goods are produced. Even themen who work at the machines do not understand it. It was with greatpleasure, therefore, that I read ‘Atlas.’ ” 4 Readers such as this welcomedboth the admiring picture Rand painted of individual businessmen andher broader endorsement of capitalism as an economic system. AtlasShrugged updated and formalized the traditional American affinity forbusiness, continuing the pro-capitalist tradition Rand had first encounteredin the 1940s. She presented a spiritualized version of America’smarket system, creating a compelling vision of capitalism that drew ontraditions of self-reliance and individualism but also presented a forward-looking,even futuristic ideal of what a capitalist society could be.