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localroger

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6. Sinclair Lewis wrote that novel in 1935

Reply to Jack Valentino (Reply #3)

Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:50 PM

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...about the US. Before we even knew of the horrors of Nazi Germany. Given the number of Hitler fans in the US when Japan forced us to decisively take the other side in the war, had the Nazi horrors not been revealed it's quite likely we would have seen the prescience of Lewis' vision sixty or seventy years ago.

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