'Atlas Shrugged' author sees resurgence

In the midst of the credit crisis and the federal government's massive bailout plan, the works of Ayn Rand, a proponent of a libertarian, free-market philosophy she called Objectivism, are getting new attention.'Atlas Shrugged' has sold more copies in the first four months of 2009 than it did for all of 2008 -- and in 2008, it sold 200,000 copies. It's been in Amazon.com's top 50 for more than a month.
Not bad for a 1,100-page doorstop of a book that came out in 1957, by an author who died in 1982.