Historical Fiction. 1940.
This book hit me hard. So many times I wanted to walk away, but like a car crash on the highway, I just couldn’t look away. The election results of 2024 collided with the hate and blame running rampant in this book. Why this book? Why now? It had been in my “to be read” pile for over a year.
The quotes that grabbed me by the throat will become part of a separate blog post, but for now here they are…
“True love of country is a regard for all people of one’s country…We’re all in this American experiment together.” (109)
“There was a dazzle of danger in his gaze, the hypnotic promise of power. It was exhilarating. Narcotic. And terrifying. Fuhrer Kontakt, it was called with Hitler - an intense magnetism that could make people believe, in that moment, they were the only one in the room, the center of the universe. It made them willing to follow him anywhere.” (258)
“It could never happen here - and it not only could have, but almost did. And there’s every reason to believe it could happen again in the future.” (302)
Hope for the future is what I continue to hold onto. Hope.
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