I previously reviewed the film version of the novel "The Ox-Bow Incident" it seems only fitting that I also review the novel that the film is based on. The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark is about mob justice in the old west, but it could just as well be set in any time period or location.
Because The Ox-Bow Incident was first published in 1940 many people assumed that the author was thinking of fascism in europe and Japan, but the truth is, Mr. Clark was thinking of America.
The United States has a long and shameful history of lynching and mob rule. What comes to my mind was the rush to go to war with Iraq after 9-11. The American people supported an invasion of Iraq based on very thin evidence.
For some reason, humans are inclined to choose violence first even when there are other alternatives.
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