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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comEPILOGUE: AYN RAND IN AMERICAN MEMORY 283river to break loose and crush every impediment to its free running.I understood that nothing stood between me and my greatest desires—nothing between me and greatness itself—but the temptation to doubtmy will and bow to councils of moderation, expedience, and conventionalmorality, and shrink into the long, slow death of respectability.That was where the contempt came in.” 8 Wolff was not the only writerto find Rand an irresistible target for parody. The cape, the ivory cigaretteholder, the dollar-sign pin—she is a satirist’s dream come true. InMary Gaitskill’s Two Girls, Fat and Thin, she is the stern Anna Granite,founder of “Definitism,” while Murray Rothbard mocked her as CarsonSand in Mozart Was a Red. 9That Rand had spawned a veritable genre of parodists spoke to hercontinued appeal. Twenty years after her death she was selling morebooks than ever in her life, with Atlas Shrugged alone averaging salesof more than one hundred thousand copies per year. These figures kepther from fading out of public memory, as did her connection to AlanGreenspan, her most famous protégé. As Greenspan’s star rose, so didRand’s. Profiles and biographies of Greenspan inevitably lingered overhis time spent by her side, and enterprising reporters even exhumedGreenspan’s Objectivist Newsletter articles for clues about his intellectualdevelopment.The financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a new Rand, one stripped ofhistorical context and at times mythic in stature. She suddenly becamea favored citation of the left, who saw in her ideas about free marketsand selfishness the roots of economic devastation. Greenspan’s startlingadmission that he “found a flaw” in his ideology offered the ultimateproof for this line of reasoning. To these criticisms Rand’s followers hada ready answer, the same one she herself would have proffered. Truecapitalism has never been known, the Objectivists cried, and it is thestatist economy that collapsed, not the free one. Rather than cause libertariansand Objectivists to recant their beliefs overnight, for many thefinancial meltdown simply confirmed the predictive powers of Rand’swork. Yaron Brook, ARI’s director, summarized the reaction: “We’reheading towards socialism, we’re heading toward more regulation.Atlas Shrugged is coming true.” This understanding was not confined toObjectivist circles. Sales of Atlas Shrugged spiked in 2008 after the U.S.Treasury bought stakes in nine large banks and again in 2009 when the