A Chapel Hill, North Carolina, business owner, Colin Mahoney offers quality solutions in the concrete and stone flooring industry as leader of Crete Coatings. Outside of his professional life, Colin Mahoney is an avid reader who considers Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged one of his favorite books.

1. AYN RAND’S ATLAS SHRUGGED - FORWARD-
LOOKING CRITIQUE OF MODERN SOCIETY
Colin Mahoney, North Carolina

2. INTRODUCTION
 A Chapel Hill, North Carolina, business owner, Colin Mahoney
offers quality solutions in the concrete and stone flooring industry
as leader of Crete Coatings. Outside of his professional life, Colin
Mahoney is an avid reader who considers Ayn Rand’s Atlas
Shrugged one of his favorite books.
The 1957 novel centers on the efforts of Dagny Taggart, the chief
of operations at Taggart Transcontinental, to understand a
process that has led to the failure both of her company and that of
industrial civilization itself. The narrative begins with a set of
paradoxes and contradictory facts that must be sifted through.
Dagny has a major decision to make about whether to continue to
fight to save her railroad business or let it fail.

3. AYN RAND’S ATLAS SHRUGGED
 Dagny also finds herself in a dogged search for two
mysterious figures: one a force of destruction who is
causing a “brain drain” by luring the most able members
of society away from productive purpose; the second, the
inventor of a motor that was never completed but which
she believes could have revolutionized the world.
This lengthy book, which Rand considered her defining
work, has had an outsized influence in the American
business community over the decades since its
publication. In particular, it provides a critical look at the
underlying societal mechanisms that threaten freedom
and that endanger the power of capitalism to enact
positive social change.