Sawdust Caesar

Name: Sawdust Caesar
Author: sending a dime and a coupon to the New York Post every month to receive a volume of Charles Dickens’ works. He’d go on to read about fascism in Europe through George Seldes’ Sawdust Caesar and The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror , and engage in political debate with the young Communists of his neighborhood. Invited to a peaceful demonstration in Times Square, mounted police would charge and knock Zinn unconscious – marking a turning point in his social ideology:

by sending a dime and a coupon to the New York Post every month to receive a volume of Charles Dickens’ works. He’d go on to read about fascism in Europe through George Seldes’ Sawdust Caesar and The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror , and engage in political debate with the young Communists of his neighborhood. Invited to a peaceful demonstration in Times Square, mounted police would charge and knock Zinn unconscious – marking a turning point in his social ideology:

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