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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: The Illustrated Fountainhead: Serializing a Classic Novel
Description: On May 7, 1943, as World War II raged across the globe, Ayn Randās novelĀ The FountainheadĀ was published in America. Due to sparse reviews and minimal publicity, sales were initially low. Then an unusual thing happened, paralleling Randās description of the gradual success of the novelās hero, Howard Roark: āIt was as if an underground stream flowed through the country and broke out in sudden springs that shot to the surface at random, in unpredictable places.ā As word-of-mouth readership spread, Randās novel began appearing on best-seller lists more than a year after publication. By May 1945 it was #1 on theĀ Los Ang...