I watched the second Ayn Rand documentary - also completely amateurishly made, but again some fascinating glimpses of Miss Rand and lots of good info about her philosophy - and the thrust of this particular documentary was all about Atlas Shrugged and how everything she predicted in the book (which takes place "the day after tomorrow") has basically come true. The book was slammed mercilessly by the critics of the day and yet it sold a huge number of copies, spent months on the best-seller list and over the years has sold over seven million copies. Since the financial meltdown and that crap bailout stuff, the book has been selling over 200,000 copies a year, pretty impressive for a book written in 1957 that was hated by all the critics. It's taught in schools now, too. The nice thing about history is that all those critics' reviews are available to read and all those critics, at least while they were alive, got to see how the public took to the book.
