Would Jack London have approved

[alanjjohnstone]

 

Revolution in the House that Mrs. Jack London Built: Tales of a Museum and a World Famous Writer

[ALB]

Looks as if his socialist period is going to be sidelined in pursuit of some feminist agenda. Incidentally, in view of some of the things he wrote both in his fiction and political writings, this speculation could well be valid:

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The restoration of Charmian London means the downsizing of Jack’s first wife, Bessie, and their two daughters, especially Joan, who wrote one of the first books about her father that she subtitled “An Unconventional Biography.” If dad had lived until the 1920s, Joan argued, he would have become an admirer of Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist. That’s a stretch, though London certainly admired Nietzschean supermen.

[alanjjohnstone]

In this period of heightened and polarised racism and xenophobia, the man who came up with the phrase "Great White Hope" may well have switched to the right-wing anti-migrant movements.As an aside "White Fang" was the first book i read that didn't have pictures and i am presently reading "People of the Abyss" on my Kindle 

[Ike Pettigrew]

My experience was similar.  The first 'proper' book I read, about the age of 8, was Call of the Wild.  Jack London is one of my two favourite writers, alongside Orwell.Regarding the quote above from a member of his family, it possibly represents a misunderstanding about Nietzsche, but I think there's a fair chance he would have endorsed Mussolini or looked on him favourably.  Who knows?

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