JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
This 42-page oversized pamphlet renders its vicious criticism mostly by cartoon, a cartoon on every page, and mostly a lie (or a group of them) to go along with it. The work is ostensibly that of a republican (the pamphlet “priced low enough to enable every Republican to buy a copy for his Democratic friends” but it is really far beyond that. It is tremendously anti-Communist, and anti-Socialist, and so much so that it swings far to the right of right-winger Conservatives who are beyond the reach of right-wing Republicans, all the way over to fascism.
- The original pamphlet is available for purchase via the blog’s bookstore, here.
The work was publish by the Loyal American group, an organization under the direction of W.Henry MacFarland jr, whose organization “promptly identified as a fascist organization by the U.S. Attorney General”, and hung around long enough to be added to a list of fascist/hate groups in the Preliminary Report on Neo-fascist and Hate Groups by the Committee on Un-American Activities (December 17, 1954). I’d reproduce more of the artwork, but the pamphlet is brittle and won’t go onto the scanner without breaking. The remarkable front and back pages should serve the purpose of the publication….
