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This originally appeared on Robert Reich's blog. Donald Trump once said he identified with Ayn Rand’s character Howard Roark in “The Fountainhead,” an architect so upset that a housing ...

By Richard Rayner The new, 50th anniversary edition of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged" (Signet: 1,080 pp., $8.99 paper) -- appearing only three years after an edition commemorating the ...

Young Bud was particularly inspired by Rand’s architect character Howard Roark in the Fountainhead — modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright. Brigham grew up in Midland, Texas, heart of the Permian oil ...

If you have not read Ayn Rand’s, Fountainhead(Review) then you may want to skip this post, go buy the book, and then come back. If you have (and you know about Mark Cuban), then you may be ...

In a stroke of simple genius, Ayn Rand laid the cornerstone of her philosophy at the feet of a master builder. 1943’s The Fountainhead introduced the world to a laconic architect named Howard Roark.

Ayn Rand taught me about humanity's heroic destiny. Her four novels are dominated by great heroes: Kira Argounova, Howard Roark, Hank Reardon, Dagny Taggart, John Galt, and the unnamed narrator of ...