• • • Atlas Shrugged, part 1, on DVD 
Sherwood Brooks, The Examiner Atlas Shrugged movie  |Atlas Shrugged  |Personal life  |Image  | With the exceptions of Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Roger Ailes and Ronald Reagan, no American is more universally despised by the worldwide left than Ayn Rand. Of course, leftists think in collective terms; Rand, whose family was victimized by the communists in the Russian revolution of 1917, saw no value in forced collectivization and, accordingly, escaped Russia for America, where she worked as a screenwriter, novelist and general thorn-in-the-side of the leftist theorists whose ideas couldn’t withstand her real-life experiences.   Published: 2012-07-31