media ran stories about him. Sedition trial In 1944, he was indicted in a group that ranged from isolationists to pro-Nazi agitators, in a sedition prosecution under the Smith Act. After seven months of proceedings the case ended in a mistrial, after presiding judge Edward C. Eicher died of a heart attack in November 1944. Dennis co-authored with Maximilian John St. George (1885–1959) an account of the trial, which appeared in 1946 as A Trial on Trial: The Great Sedition Trial of 1944. Later life In his later years, Dennis repudiated his views of the 1930s and early 1940s, became a critic of militarism and the Cold War, and he propagated his views through a modest newsletter, The Appeal to Reason (not to be confused with the similar named Appeal to Reason, a left-wing newspaper published in the American Midwest from 1895 until 1922), which maintained a prominent circle of readers, including Herbert Hoover, Joseph P. Kennedy, William Appleman Williams, Harry Elmer Barnes, and James J. Martin. His last book, Operational Thinking for Survival, was published in 1969. Alec Marsh suggests that, "Dennis will find his place in the disenchanted anti-liberal black company of Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, and George Schuyler. Books Is Capitalism Doomed? (Harper & Brothers, 1932) The Coming American Fascism (Harper & Brothers, 1936) online The Dynamics of War and Revolution (Harper & Brothers, 1940) A Trial on Trial: The Great Sedition Trial of 1944 (1946) Operational Thinking for Survival (Ralph Myles, 1969) References Further reading Justus D. Doenecke, "The Isolationist as Collectivist: Lawrence Dennis and The Coming of World War II" Journal of Libertarian Studies 3 (Summer 1979): 191–208. Justus D. Doenecke, "Lawrence Dennis: Revisionist of the Cold War," Wisconsin Magazine of History 55 (Summer 1972): 275–86. Justus D. Doenecke, "Weekly Foreign Letter, 1938–1942," in Ronald Lora and William Henry Longton, eds. The Conservative Press in Twentieth-Century America (1999, 287–294. Justus D. Doenecke, "Appeal to Reason, 1946–1972" in ibid., 295–303. Gerald Horne, The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States (New York University Press, 2006) Stuart E. Knee. "Prophet of Darkness" New England Journal of History (1995) 51#3 pp 37–43. Alec Marsh. “Lawrence Dennis: Black Voice in the Right Wing Wilderness.” Callaloo 31#4 (2008), pp. 1362–70, online. Ronald Radosh, Prophets on the Right: Profiles of Conservative Critics of American Globalism (1975) External links "The Color of