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The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand Signet #Y1770 First prrinting 1971

Paperback
4.2 x 7 inches, 208 pages

The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution is a 1971 collection of essays by the philosopher Ayn Rand, in which the author argues that religion, the New Left, and similar forces are irrational and harmful. Most of the essays originally appeared in The Objectivist. A revised edition appeared in 1975, and an expanded edition edited by Peter Schwartz was published in 1999 under the title Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution.

The book received little attention from reviewers when it was first released. In a survey of Rand's works, historian James T. Baker described the book's essays as "shrill proclamations" that are "more negative than positive, more destructive than constructive." Rand bibliographer Mimi Reisel Gladstein said the book's topics "seem dated", but "as Rand's predictions about the negative results of some of the practices she rails… Read More

Signet, 1971-09-01. Paperback. Good.

Signet, 1975. Book. Good. Soft cover. Second Ed. Second revised paperback ed. Good condition, moderate over all wear, inside of covers browned, spine darkened..

Mass Market. Signet. Clean Text, No Water Damage, Strong Binding. Yellowing. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.

New York: Meridian Books, 1994. First printing. Revised and updated to include "The Age of Envy". Moderate cover, edge wear, rub. Pages very good; few w/underscore, marginalia. Ayn Rand's call to American youth to reject the tribal, conventional irrationality of the New Left and to grasp the need of a philosophical revolution founded on the supremacy of reason, with individualism, self-interest, science, technology, and progress as its consequences. "Reason and morality aer the only weapons thta determine the course of history. The collectivists dropped them because the had no right to carry them. Pick them up: you have." 239 pages.. Revised Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New American Library. Good- Reading Copy. 1971. Underlining/First Printing. Mass Market Paperback. (L21) .

USA: New American Library, 1971 A clean and tightly bound book. Covers a little scuffed. Name on flyleaf. Good reading copy. pages tanned.

USA: Signet, 1971 A clean and tightly bound book. Pages tanned.