EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chilling realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press Doremus and his friends publish an underground newspaper that tells the truth about what is happening.
Doremus is imprisoned, escapes to Canada, and joins the underground movement which is headed by a man who had opposed Windrip in the election. The novel inveighs against some aspects of capitalism as well as fascism, and communists come in for their share of criticism also. Fiction for Youth. There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Internet Archive Books. But the occasion was essentially serious.
All of America was serious now, after the seven years of depression since It was just long enough after the Great War of for the young people who had been born in to be ready to go to college. The features of this night among the Rotarians were nothing funny, at least not obviously funny, for they were the patriotic addresses of Brigadier General Herbert Y. Edgeways, U. Nor could any social-minded patriot sneeze at her recent somewhat unappreciated effort to maintain the purity of the American Home by barring from the motion-picture industry all persons, actors or directors or cameramen, who had: a ever been divorced; b been born in any foreign country--except Great Britain, since Mrs.
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