Lisa Duggan

&#160;<B>&quot;Astute.&quot;&mdash;<I>New York Times&#160;</I></B><BR /><BR /> Ayn Rand&rsquo;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...