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Ayn Rand is a writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly.... [The Fountainhead] is a long but absorbing story of man's enduring battle with evil. This is the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall.... Miss Rand has taken a stand against collectivism, "the rule of the second-hander, the ancient monster" which has brought men "to a level of intellectual indecency never equaled on earth." She has written a hymn in praise of the individual and has said things worth saying in these days. Whether her antithesis between altruism and selfishness is logically correct or not, she has written a powerful indictment.
Lorrine Purette - New York Times (5/16/1943)