Rand's Anthem (Cliffs Notes)
by Andrew Bernstein
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Author: Andrew BernsteinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-06-26
ISBN: 0764585576
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
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Summary: 2 Stars
I don't imagine that Cliff Notes are supposed guide students in the literary niceties of the works in question. There is nothing wrong with that: they are purchased by students as handy summaries of a book's contents.
Even within the constraints of Cliff Notes, Andrew Bernstein could have done something to help students appreciate the literary sophistication of Ayn Rand's ANTHEM. These notes are little more than a summary (with, I concede, a few useful observations) of the book and a soap box for Bernstein to tell us how great Rand and Objectivism is, even when it isn't appropriate.
Bernstein is associated with the Ayn Rand Institute (which advocates Leonard Peikoff's orthodox brand of Objectivism), which is fine with me, but he shouldn't use this book to propagandize for Rand and Objectivism. For example, when he says that Rand "helped form an institute to teach her philosophy" in 1958, was it so hard to mention that it was the Nathaniel Branden Institute?
Before Bernstein pontificates, he should at least learn what he is talking about. John Scopes wasn't jailed for teaching evolution and, according to most scholars, Bruno wasn't burned at the stake for teaching heliocentrism.
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