Mean Girl

Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed

Lisa Duggan

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University of California Press
14 May 2019

Series: American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present

" ""Astute.""—New York Times

Ayn Rand’s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right from Paul Ryan to Donald Trump. Mean Girl follows Rand’s trail through the twentieth century from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and traces her posthumous appeal and the influence of her novels via her cruel, surly, sexy heroes. Outlining the impact of Rand’s philosophy of selfishness, Mean Girl illuminates the Randian shape of our neoliberal, contemporary culture of greed and the dilemmas we face in our political present."

By: Lisa Duggan
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 8
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780520294769
ISBN 10: 0520294769
Series: American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 14 May 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lisa Duggan is a historian, journalist, activist, and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of The Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy.

Reviews for Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed

Provides an explanation for our current cultural and political moment. . . . Duggan's book sums up Rand's life and philosophy in under ninety pages. -- Masha Gessen * The New Yorker * Lisa Duggan gets it exactly right . . . when she writes that Rand's `particular gift was not for philosophical elaboration, but for stark condensation and aphorism. She deployed this gift to create a moral economy of inequality to infuse her softly pornographic romance fiction with the political eros that would captivate a mass readership.' * Times Higher Education *