Title: If A&E Starts Up Again...
Product review: ...it would be fascinating to see what they would do with this story.As you read above, it is true that Rex Stout does want to "get on the civil rights bandwagon." He has some basis, though: his "Too Many Cooks" addresses the issue of "race relations" in a manner unusally forthright for its era.It meant enough to Stout to bring back a character from that story as a protagonist in this one. By the way, that alone strains your "Nero Wolfe Time Warp." The character has aged enough to grow from a teenager to a parent of an adult child, but Nero, Archie and the gang have not changed a bit...Anyway, the preachment is simple: people are people, regardless of race. You could see this as "traditional liberalism," but the race flavor does add a special quality to the storytelling. It's still a hard one to solve...
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