Atlas Shrugged is a classic engaging and LONG treatise on the virtue of selfishness. While that may sound like an opposite to most people's moral view of how life is supposed to be the happy reader will find it a valuable reiteration of the economic principles of life spawned by Adam Smith. (I've heard it said that there is no humbler name than John Smith - but Adam Smith has to come somewhere near that, right? I mean, Right?)