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Vice-President in Charge of Operation of Taggart Transcontinental and – everyone knows – the one who truly runs her family business. She’s determined to keep her railroad running no matter how difficult the looters in power make it for her with their torrent of new regulations and directives. Every grasp she and her lover Hank Rearden make for victory, however, seems to be thwarted by an unknown Destroyer who’s making the great businessmen and industrialists of the world disappear one by one…

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Vice-President in Charge of Operation of Taggart Transcontinental and – everyone knows the one who truly runs her family business. She’s determined to keep her railroad running no matter how difficult the looters in power make it for her with their torrent of new regulations and directives. Every grasp she and her lover Hank Rearden make for victory, however, seems to be thwarted by an unknown Destroyer who’s making the great businessmen and industrialists of the world disappear one by one…



** {{Zeerust}}: During the book's timeline ([[AlternateHistory fictional]] [[TheFifties 1950s]] after a gradual evolution of 1930s technology and economy), Argentina had been a very wealthy country and a great supplier of metallic ores, the ideal place for a fictional mining empire. After late 20th century economic downturns, it sounds a bit unrealistic for modern readers.

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** {{Zeerust}}: During the book's timeline ([[AlternateHistory fictional]] [[TheFifties [[The50s 1950s]] after a gradual evolution of 1930s technology and economy), Argentina had been a very wealthy country and a great supplier of metallic ores, the ideal place for a fictional mining empire. After late 20th century economic downturns, it sounds a bit unrealistic for modern readers.



* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the "John Galt Plan" blows up in his colleagues’ faces. Unfortunately, he could not pick a worse route to go...

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the "John Galt Plan" blows up in his colleagues’ colleagues’ faces. Unfortunately, he could not pick a worse route to go...



* DirtyCommunists: His description (rough physique, [[HellBentForLeather quasi-military garb with jackboots and belts]]), [[VodkaDrunkenski drinking habit]], aggressive way of running businesses and bullying, hand on revolver attitude are stereotypical for [[{{UsefulNotes/TheSovietTwenties}} pre-WWII Old Bolshevik commissars]] [[InJoke of the USSR]].

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* DirtyCommunists: His description (rough physique, [[HellBentForLeather quasi-military garb with jackboots and belts]]), [[VodkaDrunkenski drinking habit]], aggressive way of running businesses and bullying, hand on revolver attitude are stereotypical for [[{{UsefulNotes/TheSovietTwenties}} [[UsefulNotes/TheSoviet20s pre-WWII Old Bolshevik commissars]] [[InJoke of the USSR]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Preaches the importance of personal freedom and egotism, and against the idea that governments should have the right to violate individual property rights for ideological reasons, and then makes laws in his idealized society forbidding that anyone offer any kind of charity to anyone else who isn't their immediate nuclear family for any reason, even private egotistical satisfaction.

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