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• Sunday, February 18, 2007 07:23 PM

  Worth noting...

  Joe, I tried to send this as feedback, but there seems to be a glitch; the contact/feedback page comes up at "you do not have permission to view this page".

  I don't know if you read these comments, but I hope so.

  I wanted to point out something that you might find interesting, given the (admittedly fascinating) subject of your book: there was an extremely prescient movie made on that theme, the fall of democracy in America.

  It was called "Shadow On The Land", and was made for television in 1968. The parallels to the Bush Administration are fascinating, as is the perversion of American symbolism into fascistic forms. For example, the new US flag features a two-headed bald eagle, with both claws clutching a brace not of arrows, but of nuclear missiles. The presentation of a near-future American dictatorship was stunning, and stuck in the head of everyone I know who ever saw it.

  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063589/

  Unfortunately it's extremely rare now, even though it featured popular actors such as Gene Hackman, John Forsythe, and Jackie Cooper. Sony, the current owner of the film, does not plan to offer a DVD of it.

  —Peter Maranci Read Peter Maranci's other letters
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