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Not to take the thread off in another direction but in searching for an AS quote the other day, I came across a book that if not the direct precursor to AS certainly added its influence. It's The Driver by Garet Garrett, published in 1922. It is available electronically via a Google Books search.

I found it to be very readable, as timely now as is Atlas Shrugged, and a key character is ... Henry M. Galt!

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Billthedrill located that book, and we reference it in the final version we’re preparing for publication.