Atlas Shrugged
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Original Title: Atlas Shrugged
Original Author: Ayn Rand
Number of words: 95
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The book is set in a futuristic society, very far from capitalist, but not entirely socialist either. Dagny Taggart runs a railroad company and is struggling to keep it running due to the lack of efficiency in the society. People ask "Who is John Galt?"; a saying that means "don''t ask complicated questions. John Galt turns out to be a real person, disgusted by the leeches who live of the productive members of society, he has taken a group of those productive people and run away to start his own
