Lawrence Dennis

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Lawrence Dennis (December 25, 1893 - ) is an American author, economist, and politician.

Life

Dennis was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He was of mixed race, though this was a fact he concealed later on in life. Following a notable career as a child evangelist, he was sent to Phillips Exeter Academy and then to Harvard.

During war scares during the Weltkrieg, Dennis took courses in first aid to prepare himself for combat, but America never entered the war. He graduated from Harvard in 1920 and entered the foreign service.

The turning point of Dennis' life came when he served in Centroamerica. He resigned from the foreign service in disgust at the rise of syndicalism in Central America, which he blamed on previous American intervention in the region. He then became an adviser to the Latin American fund of the Seligman banking trust, but again made enemies when he wrote a series of exposes of their foreign bond enterprises in The New Republic and The Nation in 1930. These exposes propelled Dennis into a national public intellectual career, publishing his first book at the height of the German power in 1932, Is Democracy Doomed?. The book submitted that democracy was, and by all right should be, on its death knell, but warned of the grave dangers of a world devoid of its positive legacy. Dennis' two later books detailed his sense of the system that was emerging to replace it, which he called Corporatism. The Coming American Corporatism in 1936, which gave a much needed intellectual foundation to Huey Long's bid for the Presidency, and The Dynamics Of War And Revolution in 1940, on the Second American Civil War.