The Ideas of Ayn Rand Author:Ronald E. Merrill The Ideas of Ayn Rand provides, for the first time, a comprehensive survey of Rand's wide-ranging contributions: her literary techniques; her espousal and then rejection of a Nietzschean outlook; her contradictory attitude to feminism; her forays into ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics; the development of her pol... more »itical creed; her influence on -- and hostility to -- both conservatism and libertarianism.« less