The Iron Heel

Jack London

⏱ 8 minScience fiction

Framed as a manuscript found centuries later, a professor's daughter watches the American plutocracy, the Iron Heel, crush the republic into a savage tyranny and drown the workers' rising in blood. London's grim, prophetic dystopia of fascism before it had a name.

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