American Decades
"American Fascism in Embryo"
Magazine article
By: Harold Loeb and Selden Rodman
Date: December 27, 1933
Source: Loeb, Harold, and Selden Rodman. "American Fascism in Embryo." The New Republic 77, no. 995, December 27, 1933, 185–87.
About the Authors: Harold Loeb (1891–1974) graduated from Princeton University and had a brief and unrewarding experience in business before beginning a literary career. He wrote several novels and published a literary magazine. After a 1929 trip to Palestine raised his interest in Zionism, he published several articles on the subject. In the early 1930s, Loeb began working as an economist for the federal government. He went on to write four books on economics. Loeb became acquainted with author Ernest Hemingway and other American expatriates while living in Paris. Hemingway used Loeb as the model for the unflattering character of Robert Cohn in The Sun Also...
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1930's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- "The Importance of the Preservation of Self-help and of the Responsibility of Individual Generosity as Opposed to Deteriorating Effects of Governmental Appropriations"
- The Proceedings and Transactions of a Conference of the Mayors of the State of Michigan
- Press Statements and Related Correspondence on the Use of Troops to Control the So-called Bonus Marchers
- Campaign Speech at Madison Square Garden, New York City
- "On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program"
- Letter to Major General Stuart Heintzelman
- "American Fascism in Embryo"
- "Carry Out the Command of the Lord"
- Harry Hopkins Press Conference, February 16, 1934
- "Federal Emergency Relief"
- Old Age Revolving Pensions
- "On Social Security"
- "What's the Matter with Congress?"
- "I Have Seen War.…I Hate War"
- "Hemingway Reports Spain"
- The Debate over Isolation
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
