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Status and influence

 * "Rand's influence on American culture was much greater than has been commonly realized. ... Largely as a result of her work, laissez-faire ideas became far more respectable in the last quarter of the twentieth century." (434)
 * "Rand's influence on American culture was much greater than has been commonly realized. ... Largely as a result of her work, laissez-faire ideas became far more respectable in the last quarter of the twentieth century." (434)


 * "the neglected philosopher and novelist" (241)
 * "Ayn Rand is one of the most widely read philosophers of the twentieth century, yet is virtually unknown outside a relatively small group of admirers, based largely in the United States." (245)
 * "Ayn Rand is one of the most widely read philosophers of the twentieth century, yet is virtually unknown outside a relatively small group of admirers, based largely in the United States." (245)


 * Political Thought in the United States: A Documentary History, edited by Lyman Tower Sargent, 397

Reviews and commentary
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TF:


 * Columbia Literary History of the United States, Part 1, edited by Emory Elliott, Martha Banta, Houston A. Baker, 757

AS:


 * Intellectual Morons, Daniel J. Flynn (2004), 202

General:


 * The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, edited by Steven R. Serafin, Alfred Bendixen, 930-931
 * The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy by Simon Blackburn, 307: "extreme and simplistic views give her a following on the political right."