Twenty of the approximately thirty surviving pages of the heavily revised penscript of Atlas Shrugged crown the collection. All pages come from two chapters in the novel’s climactic Part III, “A is A,” within “The Utopia of Greed" and "Anti-Greed.” Witness the Ayn Rand construct: the passage in which Francisco admits to himself, Dagny, and Galt, with brutally selfish honesty, the inevitable “but of course,” love between Dagny and Galt.

“This is only a modest beginning," says the penultimate betrayal of Dr. Robert Stadler when he publicly endorses Project X, of which he has no previous knowledge.