John Galt (novelist)
John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. Galt has been called the first political novelist in the English language, due to being the first novelist to deal with issues of the Industrial Revolution.
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Trending topics shown first"The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle."
"This work is not for the many; but in the unconscious, perfectly natural, irony of self-delusion, in all parts intelligible to the intelligent reader, without the slightest suspicion on the part of th…"
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1779
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Birth1839
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