The Virtue Of Selfishness should be required reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virtue_of_Selfishness



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>Atlas Shrugged is #14 on Amazon's bestseller list, and has 2,077 reviews (far more than most books above it)
>http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books
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>http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
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>Based on 217,000 votes