“Read “The Camp of the Saints” If you want to see where we are at as a country.”
What I found interesting about that book is that it would take little effort to compare the characters in the book to current people and politicians and find almost exact matches.
Camp was first published in 1973 France by the little known Editions Robert Laffont. Raspail then apparently gave Laffont permission to translate and distribute in English. Thus, the first American publisher was Scribner’s in 1975, and it was followed by a host of publishing houses, apparently approved by Scribner’s. Its fame proceeded by word of mouth, but when some houses dropped out, publication was continued by The Social Contract Press of Petoskey, Michigan. Despite being ignored on the Left, it remains a seminal work and one of the great intellectual tour de force of the 20th Century.