Help! My Adult Child Talks Like a Communist!
- Keith B.
- Tuesday, April 05, 2022
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In Leo McCarey's Red Scare cult classic, My Son John, John (Robert Walker) comes home from college with a raft of radical ideas. His devout Catholic mother Lucille (Helen Hayes) and American Legion member father Dan (Dean Jagger) become increasingly uneasy, unable to relate to John's leftist views. In one of the best, and most certainly melodramatic depictions of the possible gulf between generations caused by political differences, Lucille begins informing on John to the FBI agent played by Van Heflin.
If only troubled Lucille had a list of books available to her to help see John's point of view. This recommendation list focuses on history, class, race, war, and American society as a whole, from a generally left-of-center perspective. For your convenience, and because I myself am an ear-reader, they are all eaudiobooks.