Today read / listened to a fabulous propaganda novel

Today I read Steinbeck's short novel The Moon Is Down, which is about a small town that gets captured by an invading army (obviously the Germans, though their country isn't named) and embarks on a campaign of quiet resistance.
This book was written as an explicit piece of propaganda! Steinbeck was working with the OSS, the precursor to the CIA, when he w…
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