From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "selene1022"  wrote in message   
   news:1142206214.419201.273370@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...   
   > Why, is he on the black list?  That's silly.   
      
   'Legions of point-scoring bores know that Lewis once wrote a book called The   
   Jews: Are They Human?, although they don't always know that this book - from   
   the calculated obscenity of the title onwards - is a tract against   
   anti-semitism. As Paul O'Keeffe points out in his impressive biography, it   
   not only takes its title from a forgotten humorous bestseller called The   
   English: Are They Human?, but it got a bad review in the Mosleyite British   
   Union Quarterly and a good one in The Jewish Chronicle .   
   That doesn't let Lewis off the hook completely. His Jewish book (and his   
   anti-Nazi book, The Hitler Cult) were part of a damage-limitation exercise,   
   an attempt to undo the gaffe he'd made with his 1931 book Hitler ("This   
   celibate inhabitant of a modest Alpine chalet - vegetarian, non-smoking, and   
   non-drinking ... the most unassuming of men ..."). But the inter-war years   
   were a strange time, and Lewis was hardly alone in his extremism: T S Eliot   
   wrote to the Daily Mail to praise the paper's pro-Mussolini stance, George   
   Bernard Shaw hero-worshipped Stalin, and Graham Greene's books had to be   
   re-edited after the war to take the anti-semitic bits out. You can't help   
   feeling there is a touch of scapegoating with Lewis, and a kind of inverse   
   McCarthyism: both the New Statesman and the aptly named Partisan Review   
   spiked pieces on Lewis for not being negative enough. '   
      
   http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,6121,399034,00.html   
      
      
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