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How influential has Ayn Rand been?
- Bill Collins, awarded an Order of Australia for his services to film and television, called her 'one of the greatest women of the twentieth century and the most brilliant thinker'
- a Library of Congress survey found Atlas Shrugged to be the second most influential book (after the Bible) in modern America
- BB&T, the award-winning bank, ranked in the top 5 in the U.S. for excellence in business banking, has adopted Ayn Rand's philosophy Objectivism as its guiding principles
- there are now more than 50 universities in America with courses based on her work
- Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, was heavily influenced by Ayn Rand, and contributed three chapters to her book Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal
- Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, has been frequently interviewed on the Fox News channel and CNBC
- other Ayn Rand Institute writers and speakers are frequently published and interviewed in America in newspapers and journals, and on radio and television programs
- the Ayn Rand Institute's Free Books to Teachers program has provided more than 1.4 million books to 30,000 teachers across America
- in Australia, surfer Layne Beachley, singer Suzi Quatro, actress Madeleine West, and former presenter Naomi Robson, are all fans of her novels
- Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged in 2009 reached the top of Amazon's hard-cover fiction and classics list, and is selling in 2009 at three times the rate of the corresponding period in 2008
- the documentary 'Ayn Rand, A Sense of Life' was nominated for an Academy Award and was shown to packed audiences throughout America and Canada
- the United States Postal Service issued a stamp in her honour
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