Title: turgid and polemical
Product review: Yes, as the book's back cover says, this book is largely forgotten today. Maybe for good reason. It is a shrill, turgid and polemical screed about doing over the American government. The hero, if that term might be used, overthrows the government in a putsch. He then institutes a radical restructuring of American society, along the lines of a socialist fantasy.The book was written in 1912 and thus predates the rise of Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler. Yet it carries within itself the echoes of those fanaticisms. If you are an American and actually want to read this miserable screed, do so and be grateful that it remained a dark fiction.
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