Six smart and imaginative people form a book club to discuss a list of politically significant fiction from the 20th century. They examine the qualities of democrats in portraits of Lincoln by Gore Vidal and William Safire and Stuff Happens, a satirical play about George W. Bush's war on Iraq in 1982. They analyze books about demagogues, including Robert Penn Warren's All the Kings Men and Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here. They talk about dictators and discuss how Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin are portrayed in Robert Bolt's State of Revolution and the way Tomas Eloy Martinez represents...
Six smart and imaginative people form a book club to discuss a list of politically significant fiction from the 20th century. They examine the qual...