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Founder of Bridgewater Associates
American investor and entrepreneur (born 1958)
American blogger, main author of the Wait But Why blog
Recommended by 12 notable people, including Ev Williams and Emma Watson
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See customer reviews on Amazon →The Fountainhead is a philosophical novel following architect Howard Roark’s defiance of social convention. Reading it feels like absorbing a passionate manifesto through melodrama: long speeches and symbolic characters deliver Ayn Rand’s objectivist ideas. Its strength is fueling personal integrity; its weakness is didacticism that flattens nuance and becomes a lecture. The prose is grandiose, the pacing uneven, but for those who click, it’s an electrifying defense of individualism.
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This centennial edition of "The Fountainhead," celebrating the controversial and enduring legacy of its author, features an afterword by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, offering some of Ayn Rand's personal notes on the development of her masterwork, and a Reader's Guide to her writings and philosophy.
Difficulty:hard
Length:754 pages (Long)
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Recommended by 29 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Founders, Books Recommended by Billionaires, and Most Recommended Books.
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Consider The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. Recommended by 8 sources.
“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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