Socialists come to power in the USA and the government takes a course towards “equal opportunities”, considering it fair to make the worthless and untalented rich at the expense of the talented and wealthy. Persecution of business leads to the destruction of the economy, and one after another, talented people and the best entrepreneurs begin to disappear under mysterious circumstances. The main characters of the novel, the steel king Hank Rearden and the vice-president of the railway company Dagny Taggert, try in vain to resist the tragic events. Instead of general prosperity, society is plunging into apathy and chaos. Why the book is worth reading - This is a worldview-changing book, it forms a holistic vision of the world and provides answers to questions about the meaning of human life and the social significance of entrepreneurship. - According to public opinion polls conducted in 1991 By the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in America, Atlas Shrugged is the second book after the Bible to change the lives of American readers. The book hit The New York Times bestseller list three days after it began sales and remained there for 21 weeks. – This is the most significant work in the life of the writer, which took 12 years of her life to work on.