TY - BOOK AU - Rand,Ayn TI - The fountainhead AV - PZ3.R152 Fo U1 - Fic. PY - 1943///] CY - New York, N.Y. PB - The New American Library N1 - "A Signet book." N2 - The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence ER -