As Greg Johnson puts it at The Daily Objectivist website: "For someone who is relatively ignorant of and new to Rand's thought Gotthelf's book gets a grade of C+. Although his Introduction begins promisingly with an explication of a passage from Atlas Shrugged, his exposition of Rand's philosophy begins with two chapters on metaphysics, followed by two chapters on epistemology. Only then does he deal with Rand's moral philosophy, which receives barely eleven pages. Rand's political philosophy receives one page, and her aesthetics receives one and a half. But the relative weights he gives to the different branches of philosophy results in an extremely abstract, unaccommodating, and off-putting introduction to Rand's thought. All evidence indicates that this book was written and published with great haste and little attention to detail." A better introduction to Rand would be her own "For the New Intellectual".