THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST By Martyn Burke. HOW Did one of history's most cultured societies descend into the depravity of the Nazis?
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“Censorship had raised gossip to the level of official communication.” 1933: The Year the Nazis Seized Power" by Philip Metcafe.0\-- The Gossip Columnist, Sunday, April 22 , 1945 It's been a strange experience, reading this book at this time in the United States. It's arrived as democracy is under daily assault in Congress and the streets of our cities. Processes similar to those used by the Nazis have been echoed in our news headlines, attacks on our institutions, including press repression. I asked Martyn Burke, author of the new novel, THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST (1/27/26 DarkSpur Press), the following question: Q. What is there from your own experience that you brought into the story of The Gossip Columnist? A. "In totalitarian societies I’ve seen the terror and the crushing of moral guidelines, and always there is the question you ask yourself: “How did it get to this?” I spent a lot of time researching the step-by-step descent of o...