In "Ayn Rand: Engineer of Souls," Anthony Daniels has written what is perhaps the most provocative and perceptive assessment of the literary merit and flawed psychological insight of novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand since Whittaker Chambers's damning review of Atlas Shrugged. Sure to be controversial among her acolytes and admirers (of which I was one for many years), Daniels dares place Rand within a distinctive Russian tradition and genre exemplified by that leaden stylist of Soviet "Socialist Realism," Joseph Stalin. This one will definitely stir up the Randroids!
