Jean Raspail’s “The Camp of the Saints” is a kind of books you may’t point out at a cocktail party with out setting off a minor warfare. It’s been denounced, suppressed, and maligned as a hateful screed. And but half a century after its publication, the guide nonetheless pops like a gunshot. Why? As a result of it asks the query that well mannered society has performed its finest to keep away from: What occurs when a civilization loses the desire to protect its personal entrance door?
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