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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comINDIVIDUALISTS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 49Court. “No tyranny in history has ever been established overnight,”Rand warned. She traced the recent history of Russia and Germany,asking, “If Mr. Roosevelt is empowered to pass his own laws and havehis own men pass on these laws, what is to prevent him from passingany law he pleases?” Her solution, even at this early date, was activism.“There must be a committee, an organization, or headquarters createdat once to lead and centralize the activity of all those who are eagerto join their efforts in protest,” she declared. Her letter urged readersto write immediately to Congress, lest they lose their lives and possessions.She closed with a reference to her favorite Sinclair Lewis novel:“ ‘It can’t happen here,’ you think? Well, it’s happened already!” 29 Rand’sletter was never printed, but more prominent commentators sharedits basic sentiments. Roosevelt’s disastrous bill, widely condemned as acourt-packing scheme, went down to stunning defeat in Congress andemboldened his opposition. The influential columnist Walter Lippmannemerged as a new Roosevelt critic, throwing darts at the president in hisnational columns. In 1938 Texas Congressman Martin Dies began investigatingCommunist infiltration of the federal government, eventuallyreleasing a list of more than five hundred government employees whoalso belonged to known Communist fronts, a move intended to blur theline between Communist, socialist, and New Deal liberal.But it seemed almost impossible to launch any effective oppositionto the popular president. A rich man himself, Roosevelt was skilled atcaricaturing his opposition as tools of the rich. Often it was not caricatureat all. The one organized anti-Roosevelt group, the Liberty League,was a secretive cabal of wealthy businessmen hoping to wrest control ofgovernment from the masses. Although the Liberty League made severalawkward attempts at populism, its main financial backers were the conservativeDu Pont family. Tarred as fascists after several of the group’smembers praised Mussolini and called for an American dictator, theLiberty League disintegrated within a few years of its founding. 30Even as she dwelled on Roosevelt’s perfidy, Rand pursued a number ofside projects. Prompted by the interest of a theater producer, she begana stage adaptation of We the Living, entitled The Unconquered. 31 WhenFrank found work in a summer stock production of Night of January 16ththe two spent an idyllic few weeks in Stonington, Connecticut. There,in a flash of inspiration, Rand completed a new manuscript, a novel of