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Dennis, Lawrence. The Coming American Fascism. 1936. Introd. W. A. Carto. Newport Beach: Noontide Press, 1993.
Dennis, Lawrence. The Dynamics of War and Revolution. 1940. Introd. James J. Martin. Newport Beach: Noontide Press, 1980.
Dennis, Lawrence, and Maximilian St. George. A Trial on Trial: The Great Sedition Trial of 1944. National Civil Rights Committee, 1946.
Horne, Gerald. The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right- Wing Extremism in the United States. New York: New York UP, 2006.
Operational Thinking for Survival. Colorado Springs: Ralph Myles, 1969.
Lawrence Dennis (1893-1977) is a forgotten figure in American intellectual history. He was an articulate isolationist, an independent political and economic commentator, an advisor to Col. Lindbergh and the America First Committee, which hoped to keep the U.S. out of a world war. This work made him an enemy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who put Dennis on trial with two dozen other right-wing opponents to his policies, in "The Great Sedition Trial" of 1944. Although the trial was inconclusive and stopped with the death of the judge, Dennis has been forever after tainted as a "fascist." Perhaps he was. In his 1936 book, The Coming American Fascism, he prophesied fascism in some form was the future of the United States. Dennis believed that the Depression proved that economic liberalism was dead and managed economies inevitable. He called for nationalization of banks, monopolies and schools, and generally, for a country administered by an "elite" imbued with ideals of national service rather then the dreams of private profit at public expense. But The Coming American Fascism is not a hate book. Dennis was not a racist and he was no extremist either; the mark of right-wing extremism is conspiracy theory, which Dennis rejected. Dennis was too savvy for that; for him, politics was a power struggle between elites, not the unfolding of a secret plan. The world could not be dominated by a single group with a comprehensive program, so there are no scapegoats (if Dennis takes shots at any special group it is lawyers), nor does the book make a fetish of military virtue. Dennis was no Nazi; The Coming American Fascism is not Mein Kampf for Americans. He argued for an American fascism that...