• • Library of Congress’s wonderfully diverse list of ‘Books That Shaped America’ 
Michael Dirda, Washington Post Atlas Shrugged  |Syndicated  | [T]he list doesn’t shy away from such bloated bestsellers as Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War romance “Gone With the Wind,” Ayn Rand’s melodrama-cum-economic tract “Atlas Shrugged” and Robert A. Heinlein’s weirdly libertarian “Stranger in a Strange Land.” Many people might not care for such pop titles, but they are books that others revere, argue about and reread.   Published: 2012-06-22