Ideas on Liberty, March 1st, 2000
The Fountainhead. An American Novel by Douglas J. Den Uyl Twayne Publishers * 1999 * 123 pages * $32.00 Reviewed by Tibor R. Machan "But of course, if individualism really is central to Americanism, then The Fountainhead is the quintessential American novel." This is the concluding sentence of Douglas Den Uyl's wonderful discussion of Ayn Rand's great novel, which has been at the center of the resurgence of interest in the philosophy of individual freedom. Den Uyl shows that Rand's book is not only inspiring, as art ought to be, and philosophically meaty, as many classic novels surely are,...
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