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Lawrence Dennis (December 25, 1893 – August 20, 1977) was an American diplomat, consultant and author. He advocated fascism in America after the Great Depression, arguing that capitalism was doomed.〔http://america.eb.com/america/article?articleId=386909〕 ==Life== Dennis was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He was of mixed race, though he concealed this until later in life.〔(The fascist who 'passed' for white ) by Gary Younge in ''The Guardian'', April 4, 2007.〕 Following a notable career as a child evangelist, he was sent to Phillips Exeter Academy and then to Harvard. During World War I, Dennis commanded a company of military police in France. He graduated from Harvard in 1920 and entered the foreign service. The turning point of Dennis' life came when he served in Nicaragua. He resigned from the foreign service in disgust at the U.S. intervention there against the Sandino rebellion. He then became an adviser to the Latin American fund of the Seligman banking trust, but again made enemies when he wrote a series of exposes of their foreign bond enterprises in ''The New Republic'' and ''The Nation'' in 1930. These exposes propelled Dennis into a national public intellectual career, publishing his first book at the height of the depression in 1932, ''Is Capitalism Doomed?''. The book submitted that capitalism was, and by all right should be, on its death knell, but warned of the grave dangers of a world devoid of its positive legacy. Dennis' two later books detailed his sense of the system that was emerging to replace it, which he believed to be fascism. ''The Coming American Fascism'' in 1936, detailing the system's substructure, and ''The Dynamics of War and Revolution'' in 1940, on the superstructure. In 1941 ''Life'' called Dennis "America's No. 1 intellectual Fascist". Dennis was an editor at ''The Awakener'' for some time. Later he founded his own publication, the ''Weekly Foreign Letter'', and he wrote for ''Today's Challenge'', published by the pro-German American Fellowship Forum of George Sylvester Viereck and Friedrich Auhagen. He tried to enlist in the American Army during World War II, but the Army rejected him after the media ran stories about him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lawrence Dennis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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