Lawrence Dennis

Lawrence Dennis
Born	December 25, 1893 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Died	August 20, 1977
Education	Phillips Exeter Academy
Alma mater	Harvard University
Occupation	Diplomat

Lawrence Dennis (December 25, 1893 – August 20, 1977) was an American diplomat, consultant and author. He advocated fascism in America after the Great Depression, arguing that capitalism was doomed.

Dennis was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He was of mixed race, but he concealed that until later in life. Following a notable career as a child evangelist, he was sent to Phillips Exeter Academy and then to Harvard University.

During World War I, Dennis commanded a company of military police in France. He graduated from Harvard in 1920 and entered the foreign service.

The turning point of his life came when he served in Nicaragua. He resigned from the foreign service in disgust at the US intervention there against Sandino's rebellion. He then became an adviser to the Latin American fund of the Seligman banking trust, but he again made enemies when he wrote a series of exposes of their foreign bond enterprises in The New Republic and The Nation in 1930. The exposés propelled Dennis into a national public intellectual career, publishing his first book at the height of the depression in 1932, Is Capitalism Doomed?. The book submitted that capitalism was and should be on its death knell, butbit warned of the grave dangers of a world devoid of its positive legacy.

His two later books detailed his sense of the system that was emerging to replace it, which he believed to be fascism. The Coming American Fascism in 1936, detailing the system's substructure, and The Dynamics of War and Revolution in 1940, on the superstructure. In 1941 Life called Dennis "America's No. 1 intellectual Fascist."

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