A SHADOW OVER THE WORLD: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Rise of Fascism, and the Making of America’s World War II, by William I. Hitchcock In “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, the protagonist, Robert Jordan, proclaims his uncompromising worldview early in the story. Beside a campfire in a cave amid the pine-covered hills, Jordan is asked whether he is a communist. “No,” he replies. “I am an antifascist.” “For a long time?” “Since I have understood fascism.” Nearly a…
Book Review: ‘A Shadow Over the World,’ by William I. Hitchcock
