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Guelph, Ont.-resident Ken McGoogan is the prolific author of 16 books, mainly Canadian historical non-fiction, most recently 2023’s Searching for Franklin. These 40-plus pieces and portraits chronicle the genesis of fascism in the 20th century.

It includes those who warned against it early, as well as those who bravely fought against and defeated it. The Associated Press files In this Aug. 8 photo, former U.

S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. It includes literary luminaries — George Orwell, André Malraux, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Martha Gelhorn, Hugh Garner, Hannah Arendt — as well as politico-historical figures such as Winston Churchill and Norman Bethune.

It also includes ordinary average-Joe folks, heroes whose stories are.