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By Robert Marshawn Walker - April 20, 2007

Which man ultimately prospers: the man of integrity, or the hypocritical, unethical man? In The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand questions the relationship between the moral and the practical. Many people in real life - as well as Gail Wynand and Dominique Francon in the novel - believe that practical success requires the individual to betray his or her…

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