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| Name: |
John Galt | | Birth Date: |
May 2, 1779 | | Death Date: |
April 11, 1839 | | Place of Birth: |
Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland | | Place of Death: |
Greenock, Scotland | | Nationality: |
Scottish | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, essayist, businessman, lobbyist |
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 Biography of John Galt
1,152 words, approx. 4 pages
 Annals of the Parish (1821) was the Scottish novel that established John Galt as a major proponent of regional realism; along with books such as Mary Russell Mitford's Our Village (1824), Annals offered a model for early Canadian sketch writers such as... summary from source:
Biography of John Galt
3,846 words, approx. 13 pages
 Considering his vast and diversified literary output, as well as his colorful career as a businessman and promoter of various enterprises, it is ironic that John Galt, a Scots novelist contemporaneous with Sir Walter Scott, should be so little known... summary from source:
Biography of John Galt
2,497 words, approx. 8 pages
John Galt was born in Irvine, in the county of Ayrshire, Scotland, on 2 May 1779. His father, also named John, was master of a West Indian trading vessel; Galt described him as remarkably handsome, easygoing, and trustworthy but of only modest ability....
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 John Galt Information
89 words, approx. 1 pages
John Galt is the name of: John Galt (Atlas Shrugged), a character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged John Galt (novelist) (1779–1839), a Scottish novelist and colonial administrator John Galt (screenwriter), writer of the film Undiscovered. John Galt...
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 MSI John Galt Solutions expands on forecast roots.(Demand Management)
10/01/2003: 358 words, approx. 1 pages The near future for demand management software vendor John Galt Solutions calls for an ambitious new product suite, but the direction is fairly simple, says the CEO of the Chicago-based company: get better at marketing, and at packaging up long-standing capabilities. Anne Omrod,... summary from source:
The Spectator Suddenly Tories are asking: Who is John Galt? The answer is: Bad news
08/17/2002: 1,107 words, approx. 4 pages According to the Daily Telegraph, a number of Conservative MPs and candidates are seriously planning to establish a breakaway right-wing party influenced by the ideas of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged, first published in 1957. Rand is one of those strange but intriguing figures... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Fire Illuminates Objectivist Cult of Galt
8/31/2007: 1,020 words, approx. 3 pagesAlmost immediately following the fire at the Deutsche Bank building at Ground Zero in August that left two firefighters dead, a harsh light began to shine on a Bronx-based subcontractor with no experience in demolition work, repeated safety violations, hints of ties to the mafia,... summary from source:
AP News 2 hurt by falling WTC skyscraper debris
5/17/2007: 259 words, approx. 1 pagesA 15-foot pipe fell off a skyscraper being dismantled near the World Trade Center site and plunged through the roof of a nearby firehouse Thursday, injuring two firefighters, officials said.Demolition work was stopped on the 40-story former Deutsche Bank building after the sprinkler pipe fell...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by J. D. McClure
9,649 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, McClure details Galt's use of Scots dialect to delineate his characters and realistically depict eighteenth-century Scottish society in The Entail.
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Critical Essay by Keith M. Costain
8,576 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Costain describes Galt's positive representation of industrial progress in his prose fiction.
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Critical Essay by Keith M. Costain
8,071 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Costain investigates Galt's indebtedness to the social, moral, and historical thought of the Scottish Realists.
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