To have enslaved America with this hocus-pocus! To have captured the mind of the world’s greatest nation without uttering a single word of truth! Oh, the pleasure we must be affording the most malevolent man on earth!” These words come near the end of Philip Roth’s 2004 novel The Plot Against America, but for some they could have been written yesterday. The election of Donald J Trump as president has been called “unimaginable”, but the truth is many people did imagine the forces that have brought him to power, or versions of them; we just stopped listening to them.
I recently posted a brief list of books that are appropriate to the current political climate. Here, the Guardian goes further with more choices that look at how American literature has addressed fascism. #resist
Source: ‘It will be called Americanism’: the US writers who imagined a fascist future | Books | The Guardian