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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com170WHO IS JOHN GALT? 1957–1968to Galt’s Gulch, a refuge nestled deep in the mountains of Colorado,where they re-create a nineteenth-century world. Residents of the valleyare on a first-name basis with each other and attend Chautauqua-typelectures at night. The former head of Sanders Aircraft is a hog farmer;a federal court judge supplies the eggs and butter. Rand’s heroes are adiverse band of “producers,” including industrialists, artists, and scientists,whom she intended to embody moral truths. These producerslead moral lives because they do not extract resources from others, butdepend on their own talents and ingenuity to advance. Once gatheredtogether in the strike, they represent the pure and honest West, setagainst the corruption and overweening power of Washington.Rand made clear that these individualist principles underlay not onlyGalt’s Gulch, but industrial corporate capitalism, properly understood.In books like The Organization Man, White Collar, and The Lonely Crowdcontemporary social scientists bemoaned the large company as a placeof soulless conformity. By contrast, Rand presented corporate capitalismas the ultimate field for expression of self. She was able to offer thisalternate vision because she focused entirely on heroic individuals likeTaggart and Rearden, who are able to shape great organizations in theirown image.For those who could plausibly self-identify as the “producers” thatRand celebrated, the novel was a powerful justification of their livelihood.Rand’s defense of wealth and merit freed capitalists from bothpersonal and social guilt simultaneously. A businessman who reprintedfive hundred copies of her speech “Faith and Force” for distributionat his own expense made this clear in his cover letter: “Dear Friend:Is success wrong? Is it evil to earn a profit—as much profit as you canmake honestly? Why should the morality of the successful person becriticized because of his success? . . . You may not agree with Miss Rand’sanswers, but I don’t think you will ever forget her basic message.” 6A potent source of Rand’s appeal was “The Meaning of Money,” aspeech from Atlas Shrugged. “So you think that money is the root of allevil?” asks dissolute copper magnate Francisco D’Anconia, misquotingthe biblical injunction against love of money. He draws a direct correlationbetween money and merit, identifying wealth as the product of virtue,and concludes, “money is the root of all good.” This message spurredmany corporations to spread the good news, and Rand granted several