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<blockquote data-quote="reveal" data-source="post: 2066997" data-attributes="member: 1236">Salman Rushdie - Satanic Verses Incites riots in Iran and Ayatollah Khomeini puts a bounty on Rushdie's head which is still active.Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's CabinThis book so polarized America that Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Ms. Stowe in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, exclaimed &quot;So this is the little lady who made this big war?&quot;Boris Pasternak - Dr ZhivagoThe book could not be published in the USSR and Pasternak was forced by the government to decline the Nobel Prize. This book was used by the US to demonstrate the &quot;evils&quot; of the USSR and further propogate its stance during the Cold War.Maybe I was a little exubarent in saying that fictional stories have overthrown governments, but the power of pen is great and many works of fiction have helped to change things. It's not always something to which you can say &quot;it's just a story.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="reveal, post: 2066997, member: 1236"] Salman Rushdie - Satanic Verses Incites riots in Iran and Ayatollah Khomeini puts a bounty on Rushdie's head which is still active. Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin This book so polarized America that Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Ms. Stowe in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, exclaimed "So this is the little lady who made this big war?" Boris Pasternak - Dr Zhivago The book could not be published in the USSR and Pasternak was forced by the government to decline the Nobel Prize. This book was used by the US to demonstrate the "evils" of the USSR and further propogate its stance during the Cold War. Maybe I was a little exubarent in saying that fictional stories have overthrown governments, but the power of pen is great and many works of fiction have helped to change things. It's not always something to which you can say "it's just a story." [/QUOTE]

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