What's fascinating...
...is how many national media publications hired outspoken communists to do the review of Atlas Shrugged when it first appeared! I guess in their perverse worldview that was somehow balanced? More likely you see just how many communists were already entrenched within the media. The fear that this book creates in the left can still be felt today.
In fact, this irrational fear and loathing, is evidenced by this thread.