![]() ![]() The op-ed’s subtitle-“How John Steinbeck’s ‘The Moon Is Down’ inspired resistance to occupation”-might give away the lede. “President Zelensky’s leadership of Ukraine’s resistance is a testament to democracy” profiles the Ukrainian president as a modern-day Mayor Orden, the fictional character Steinbeck likely modeled on the exiled mayor of Narvik, Norway. A Maop-ed in The Washington Post, by a literary-minded diplomat named Charles Edel, uses Steinbeck’s 1942 novella-play to educate another generation, and inspire resistance to another invasion and another dictator, eight decades later. John Steinbeck’s wrote The Moon Is Down to inform Americans and inspire people in the formerly free countries of Europe-Norway, Denmark, Holland, France-occupied by Hitler’s forces in 1941. ![]()
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