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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comRADICALS FOR CAPITALISM 199is now ‘lost.’ ” 24 Rand, though, was interested in both truth and beauty.She defined herself as a leader of the nearly lost Romantic school andattacked Naturalistic writers and artists as “the gutter school.” Alludingto Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Rand criticized modern intellectuals andwriters: “They feel hatred for any projection of man as a clean, self confident,efficacious being. They extol depravity; they relish the sight ofman spitting in his own face.” 25 She preferred the popular mystery novelsof Mickey Spillane, featuring a hard-boiled detective who doggedlytracked down evildoers.Objectivism was also appealing because it promised sure footing onthe slippery terrain of right and wrong. Rand insisted that ethics couldbe scientifically derived from the nature of man, properly understood.Man was a rational being and therefore, that which served his life, quaman, was the good. More important than her elevation of selfishness wasRand’s insistence that her ethics could be proven and defended objectively.Remembering his turn to Objectivism, a radio host explained,“I think the biggest change that occurs is that you recognize that thereare absolutes, that there are guidelines as criteria, that you can knowand understand.” The absolutist and rationalistic form of Rand’s ethicsappealed as much as their content. “Above all, Dagny is sure of herself,and lots of young people want to be sure of themselves,” one college fantold an interviewer. 26It was not certainty alone that Rand offered, but the idea that thingsmade sense, that the world was rational, logical, and could be understood.Order was the particular reward of Atlas Shrugged, which portrayeda world in which politics, philosophy, ethics, sex, and every otheraspect of human existence were drawn together into a cohesive narrative.Just as Rand had provided businessmen with a set of ideas that mettheir need to feel righteous and honorable in their professional lives,she gave young people a philosophical system that met their deep needfor order and certainty. This aspect of her appeal rings through againand again in accounts of her influence. One young fan told Rand thatbefore finding her work, he was “a very confused person” but “You gaveme the answers, and more important, a moral sanction for existing.”Often the lure of Rand’s intelligible world was enough for readers totrade in long-standing beliefs overnight. A self-described former “altruistand socialist” started her books skeptically but soon found in Rand