The Journey of Dagny Taggart: A Commentary on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: Volume 1

The Journey of Dagny Taggart offers the most detailed literary analysis of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged yet published. Cookinham works through the novel page by page to explore the many life experiences and locations that influenced her literary development of the novel. Unlike most reviews of Atlas Shrugged, Cookinham says the book should be examined as a romantic novel about the philosophical transition of Dagny Taggart through three love affairs rather than as a political manifesto. Along the way, he examines the many criticisms that have been launched against Rand's literary skills by critics, many of whom probably never read the book, and thoroughly refutes them. He demonstrates through the commentary that Rand is a novelist of extraordinary skill and deserves to be treated as such.

Author: Frederick H. Cookinham
Publisher: Pereset Press
Published: 07/04/2024
Pages: 478
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.77lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9781737308836

About the Author
Cookinham, Frederick H.: - Frederick H. Cookinham, 69, was born in Syracuse, New York in 1954. He earned a BA in American History from Cortland State College in 1976 and a Masters from Brooklyn College in 1987. He is the author of The Age of Rand: Imagining an Objectivist Future World. He currently edits Broadside, the newsletter of the American Revolution Round Table of New York. He has retired from a career in legal proofreading and now leads walking tours in Manhattan. Five of his tours concentrate on Ayn Rand, whose life and work he has been studying since the age of thirteen. Six more show sites from the American Revolution in New York City. He lives in Queens with his wife Belen.