A Truly Indispensable New Book. (Truly.) - Ricochet.com: "The Great Lie represents scholarship of the highest order: Flagg has given us the benefit of his own wide reading, putting in a single volume what every American needs to know. Nazism and Communism really were something new and distinctive in human history, yet at the same time they represent horrors that could recur--anywhere. As Solzhenitsyn says in a quotation that Flagg prints on the frontispiece:Yes.There is always this fallacious belief: "It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible." Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth."
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