Title: Theory / Unimportant / Art / Œuvre / Novel / Atlas Shrugged
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Name: Dagny Taggart
Definition: protagonist of the novel
Definition2: Vice-President in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental

Name: Francisco d'Anconia
Definition: owner by inheritance of the world's largest copper mining operation
Definition2: childhood friend, and the first love, of Dagny Taggart. A child prodigy of exceptional talents
Definition3: bankrupts the d'Anconia business to put it out of others' reach

Name: John Galt
Definition: primary male hero of Atlas Shrugged
Chapter: Atlas Shrugged
Definition2: unnamed menial worker for Taggart Transcontinental, who often dines with Eddie Willers in the employees' cafeteria
Definition3: engineer for the Twentieth Century Motor Company
Definition4: invented a generator of usable electric energy from ambient static electricity
Definition5: Started the strike

Name: Henry "Hank" Rearden
Definition: He owns the most important steel company in the United States
Chapter: Atlas Shrugged
Definition2: invents Rearden Metal
Intuition: illustrates Rand's theory of sex

Name: Lilian
Definition: Hank Rearden's wife
Chapter: Atlas Shrugged
Definition2: passes information to James Taggart about her husband's affair with his sister

Name: Philip Rearden
Definition: Hank Rearden's brother
Chapter: Atlas Shrugged

Name: Edwin "Eddie" Willers
Definition: Special Assistant to the Vice-President in Charge of Operations at Taggart Transcontinental
Chapter: Atlas Shrugged

Name: Ragnar Danneskjöld
Definition: world-famous as a pirate. Giving back value stolen by state to their owner
Chapter: Atlas Shrugged

Name: James Taggart
Definition: Brother of Dagny Taggart
Chapter: Atlas Shrugged
Definition2: President of Taggart Transcontinental
Definition3: anti-capitalist moral and political belief

Name: Dr. Floyd Ferris
Definition: "co-ordinator" at the State Science Institute.
Chapter: Atlas Shrugged
Definition2: Author of Why Do You Think You Think?
Definition3: Tried twice to blackmail Rearden
Definition4: Host of Project X weapon demonstration
Typ: Biologist
Definition5: Creator of the persuader, a torture machine

Name: Dr. Robert Stadler
Definition: Former professor at Patrick Henry University
Chapter: Atlas Shrugged
Definition2: mentor to Francisco d'Anconia, John Galt and Ragnar Danneskjöld
Definition3: Head of State Science Institute
Definition4: His research is deformed for military purpose

Name: Wesley Mouch
Definition: incompetent and treacherous lobbyist whom Hank Rearden reluctantly employs in Washington
Chapter: Atlas Shrugged
Definition2: rises to prominence and authority throughout the novel through trading favours and disloyalty
Definition3: helping broker the Equalization of Opportunity Bill
Definition4: senior position, and Top Co-ordinator at the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources
Definition5: Finally economic dictator of the country

Name: Equalization of Opportunity Bill
Definition: by restricting the number of businesses each person may own to one, forces Hank to divest most of his companies
Chapter: Atlas Shrugged

Name: John Galt pledge
Definition: I swear by my life, and my love of it, that
Definition2: I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine