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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Atlas Shrugged Amazon Watch: How high can it go?

By TigerHawk at 2/26/2009 02:42:00 PM

As one redistributing proposal after another issues forth from the Obama administration, we have watched the individualist screed Atlas Shrugged, published more than half a century ago, rise in its Amazon ranking. At this writing, it is ranked ~~#101~~ #99. How high can it go? It probably depends on whether the Tea Party movement catches fire.

And, yes, we were on this story long before the giants of the blogosphere.

UPDATE: Atlas is now #61. I'm going to go out on a limb and say the last forty or fifty points are attributable to this morning's link from Glenn Reynolds. He moved some books today.

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8 Comments:

By Yishai, at Thu Feb 26, 03:37:00 PM:

She seems to have been an uncanny prophetess. Events from modern day are unfolding exactly as she portrayed them. From taxing the productive to feed the whiney, to fostering a blameless society, to giving money to other countries while our own starve, to promoting 'green' technologies and discarding true production, to blaming the productive for the collective sorrows and then punishing them for it, to the countless miles of railroad cars lying dormant. I only wish I will be able to latch on to the place which will hold logic and sanity dear (Galt's Gultch?).

The Amazon ranking is veritable proof the the public is waking up to the craziness. But is it too late?

By Anonymous, at Thu Feb 26, 04:54:00 PM:

It's great to see such a prophetic book is being read again, but it appears like the most important person: Barack Obama - needs Rand's wisdom more than any of us. I'm sure it was never on the reading lists at the exclusive schools he has attended and it shows. How about organizing a mass mailing of Atlas Shrugged to the White House? That may shake things up a bit.

By Anonymous, at Thu Feb 26, 05:01:00 PM:

#81 as of 5 PM (ET)

By Viking Kaj, at Thu Feb 26, 05:35:00 PM:

I wonder how many academics are assigning this as class room reading ?

By joe, at Thu Feb 26, 09:16:00 PM:

Number 74 with a bullet when I checked at 9:15 PM EST.....

Joe E O

By Anonymous, at Thu Feb 26, 11:29:00 PM:

#61 at 10:30 CST

By Andrewdb, at Fri Feb 27, 12:52:00 AM:

#56 at 9:49 PST

By Anonymous, at Fri Feb 27, 03:03:00 PM:

#43, at 3 PM ET (Friday)

And so it continues.