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December 22nd, 2021

ATLAS SHRUGGED, LINE BY LINE: COMMENTARY AND STUDY GUIDE TO THE NOVEL THAT HAS INSPIRED MILLIONS

December 22nd, 2021

I have just finished my latest book, ATLAS SHRUGGED: COMMENTARY AND STUDY GUIDE TO THE NOVEL THAT HAS INSPIRED MILLIONS. It includes: Commentary on almost every page of the novel. Cross-referencing, so you can find previous mentions of some word, character, or event. A "Recurring Themes Index," so you can find all the mentions of Rand's favorite themes. A timeline of the events of the novel. An index of subchapters. A bibliography and General Index. My cross-referencing points you to related words and themes not only in Atlas, but also in The Fountainhead and Rand's other fiction and non-fiction. My book is 538 pages long. Just email me at fcookinham@juno.com and I will send you a copy as an attachment.

March 21st, 2021

TOURS AND BOOKS FOR 2021!

The full title of my commentary will be: ATLAS SHRUGGE... Read more

March 21st, 2021

My book THE COOKINHAMS OF UTICA is available as an attachment to anyone who sends me an email requesting it. My 1994 science fiction novel THE CAPSTONE will be available soon. My book ATLAS SHRUGGED, LINE BY LINE, will be available in a few months. In this book, I analyze the novel line by line, all 1,168 pages of it. I offer cross-referencing, to help the reader track themes that Rand sprinkles around the book. I offer an index to chapters and sub-chapters, and an index to those sprinkled themes. So my book will act as a study guide to the reader who has just read the novel for the first time and now wants to scrutinize it more closely. I include a bibliography.

January 18th, 2021

To my everlasting shame, I participated in the 1994 Howard Stern gag campaign for Governor of New York. I was not surprised recently to learn that Trump and Stern are buddies. It figures. The Trump campaigns were much like the Stern campaign, only on a bigger scale: President instead of Governor, and a billionaire instead of a millionaire. Higher stakes and a closer semblance to a serious campaign, and of course Trump actually won. But just a gag nonetheless. In the movie that Stern made about himself (starring himself) a radio demographics analyst explains that his research has shown that more people who say they hate Stern listen to his show than people who identify themselves as Stern fans. And they listen to Stern for the same reason: they want to know what the heck he is going to pull next.

ON TRUMP Monday, January 18, 2021 Two days bef... Read more