• • • George Washington, Howard Roark and George Bailey 
Donald R. McClarey, DFW Catholic Altruism  |Atheism  |The Fountainhead  |Egoism  |Individualism  |The Fountainhead movie  |William Hickman  | [Howard Roark] provides a model for the underemployed, misunderstood, twenty-something misfit by choice. These see themselves in the uncompromising sulker, believing it better to vandalize and destroy than allow society to co-opt their dreams. Rand herself would have certainly envisioned things differently. She would have sneered in disgust at the idea that Roark was anything like the slacker working at Starbucks the populists marching at Tea Parties.   Published: 2012-12-26