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| | The Iron Heel -- Jack London's Vision of Fascism |
 | | The Iron Heel was written well before World War I. It was in July 1908 that the national police for was first formed, the Bureau of Investigation, later called the FBI. |
 | | The hero of The Iron Heel is Ernest Everhard, a more or less typical Londonian superman, an alter ego of the author. |
 | | When unusual needs arose for them, such as the building of the great highways and air-lines, of canals, tunnels, subways, fortifications, levies were made on the labor-ghettos, and tens of thousands of serfs, willy-nilly, were transported to the scene of operations. |
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