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Blacklisted actor Paul Robeson summed it up best in a letter he wrote to Charlie: "...fascists everywhere hated you for your anti-Nazi film, The Great Dictator. Well, Hitler and his gang are gone, but Chaplin and his art lives on! And your name will be honored --yes, here in America, too --long after McCarthy and his kind are buried in oblivion.".

Indeed.

It was intrinsically absurd...until Donald Trump.

Now reading : the Indictment

This was very good. Polio, McCarthyism, space aliens, the Korean War - the 1950s was a pretty scary place.
Walsh mentions Hergé as an influence, and I can really see the Tin Tin vibe in some of the panels.

McCarthy-era teen Richard befriends new neighbor Vlad, the half-Czech son of a US diplomat. Richard‘s dad is an FBI agent and suspicious of the new family. This book on one hand does a good job of showing the absurdities of that era, including the comparison to our own moment, but on the other hand is a bit heavy handed.

#bookspinbingo audio edition bingo #3!

Bibliophage ... where does it come from and why did I choose it? Here‘s the scoop!

It‘s also become the title of my book blog, www.TheBibliophage.com. And if you subscribe to my email updates, I send you a lovely bibliophage bookmark. (I send internationally also.)

#alittlemoreaboutme #whattheheckisabibliophage #bookmark #bookmarkcollector #blogger #bookreviewer

It‘s the initials of my full name, which I use on Facebook in groups. The friends I made there shortened it for me - so much easier to text-type in comments before Facebook created the name fill in! Also TBH I couldn‘t think of a clever book name for myself. Fun fact: many of my friends now write the S as Sassypants. Who am I to argue.