Atlas Shrugged Special. John Allison of BB&T Bank, analysts from various think tanks and Nick Gillespie of Reason Magazine are among the numerous guests who discuss their take on the book and why they believe so many are reading it and drawing parallels to the overtaxing, over-regulating, suffocating government policies being passed today which Rand prophetically wrote about in Atlas Shrugged, her Magnum Opus novel that came out in 1957.