I’ll never forget reading The Fountainhead for the first time. It was Christmas break, I was in grad school, and it was like being doused with cold water, and I mean that in a good way. I think I spent 3 days on the couch in my pajamas devouring that book. Then I went out and bought Atlas Shrugged immediately. Changed my life, she did.
Her books helped me a lot in political arguments during the late 1960s and early 1970s, regarding capitalism, just as my reading of history and military history, helped me defend a strong national defense, and fighting a better war in Vietnam, at the time.