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Signed and inscribed by Isabel Paterson, "at the request of Ayn Rand." First Edition of Isabel Paterson's The God of the Machine (New York, Putnam, 1943). A very good Association Copy in original unclipped jacket, likely inscribed pre-publication. 1943--The world is at war, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan occupy much of Europe and Asia, and the tentacles of Roosevelt's New Deal hasten and intensify the trend toward an ever-expanding, powerful centralized government. As Roosevelt had declared, the function of individuals is "to serve that Government, and that fundamentally a great and strong group of central institutions, guided by a small group of able and public spirited citizens, could best direct all Government" (Campaign Address on Progressive Government at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California). Yet in that same year, the appearance of three books by three women, "Freedom's Furies," dared to defy the authoritarian tide and forever changed the course of American…