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and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is the fight for the soul of the Democratic Party,

the enduring legacy of Henry Wallace's

anti-fascist, anti-racist politics by John Nichols.

75 years ago, Henry Wallace, then the vice president of the United States,

mounted a campaign about the danger of American fascism. As fighting in the European and

Japanese theaters drew to a close, Wallace warned that the country might win the war and lose the

peace, that the fascist threat the United States was battling abroad had a terrifying domestic

variant, growing rapidly in power.

Wealthy corporatists and their allies in the media, Wallace's political vision, as well as

his nomination to remain vice president, was sidelined by Democratic big city bosses and

southern segregationists.

In the decades to come, other progressives would mount similar campaigns.

As John Nichols chronicles in this book, they ultimately failed.

But their efforts provide us with insights into the nature of the Democratic Party

and strategic lessons for the likes

of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The fight for the soul of the Democratic Party, the enduring legacy of Henry Wallace's

anti-fascist, anti-racist politics by John Nichols.

Out now from Verso Books.

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