Atlas Shrugged characters
JohnGalt EddieWilersEddie Wilers is Taggart Transcontinental's Special Assistant to the Vice-President in Charge of Operation [...]
JohnGalt EddieWilersEddie Wilers is Taggart Transcontinental's Special Assistant to the Vice-President in Charge of Operation [...]
Taggart TerminalNew York Taggart BuildingNew YorkAbove the Taggart terminal. A "place of competence and power" [...]
Ayn Rand began writing The Strike on January 1 1945, about a year after the [...]
Balph Eubank believes that "plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature"; Dr. Pritchett contends that [...]
"When the masses are destitute and yet there are goods available, it's idiotic to expect [...]
"Ideas are just hot air. An empty belly is a solid fact. I've said in [...]
[As a child] she took it as a regrettable accident, to be borne patiently for [...]
Dan Conway was approaching fifty. He had the square, stolid, stubborn face of a tough [...]
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur ... A [...]
He was young, tall and something about him suggested violence, but she could not say [...]
He had the vitality of a healthy human being, a thing so rare that no [...]
The glare [of the first heat for the first order of Rearden Metal] cut a [...]
The controlling stock of Taggart Transcontinental was left to James Taggart. He was thirty-four years [...]
The black hole of a radio loudspeaker was hurling sounds at the streets. They were [...]
Nat Taggart's statue [in Taggart Terminal] was copied from an artist's sketch of him, the [...]
The National Alliance of Railroads was an organization formed, it was claimed, to protect the [...]
Orren Boyle had appeared from nowhere, five years ago, and had since made the cover [...]
Larkin sat hunched, looking up with his gentle, pleading eyes. His short, plumpish figure always [...]
Regarding Philip Rearden's general appearance, Philip had always been in precarious health, though doctors had [...]
There was no trace of sun in the gray spread of clouds, yet the rails [...]
Richard Halley is a "tall, emaciated man with graying hair" (p 68 s 141). His [...]
Regarding Francisco d'Anconia's heritage, an ancestor named San Sebastián -- "one of Spain's proudest figures" [...]
Taggart Transcontinental. . . From Ocean to Ocean--the proud sologan. . . so much more [...]
[Rearden] knew that it was necessary to have a man to protect him from the [...]