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To: river rat

It comes from a writer who drank himself to death....
Certainly explains the distorted vision..
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Athiest and socialist as well. Won a prize (of course) for literature since he attacked American small town values, religion, and capitalism in his writing. Mainly at a time when the Soviet Union, and German and Italian fascism, was rising in the 1920’s and the 1930’s.


287 posted on 12/18/2007 10:07:19 AM PST by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: Greg F
Mainly at a time when the Soviet Union, and German and Italian fascism, was rising in the 1920’s and the 1930’s.

Yes, and fascism was sold as an antidote to Communism.

The New Deal was pushed through with this 'nationalist' view, that we need to 'pull together' and keep the communists from taking over.

561 posted on 12/18/2007 2:16:25 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Neocon's-the intellectual blood brothers of the Left-Yaron Brook)
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