4. For Such a Time as This, Reflections on A STONE FOR BREAD: The Slippery Slope
In my last post (see post here), A Stone for Bread‘s protagonist American Henry Beam and several American friends attend a rally in mid-1950’s Paris for a buffoonish right wing French politician, Renard Marcotte. Expecting to be amused, Henry finds himself surprisingly stirred by the man’s rhetoric. When the rally ends, Henry’s American friend Bert Yeager,…