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"The state must declare its motive to be wholly benevolent. It must be the sole source of all, it must give all, it must pour out benefits, concern, advice and instructions on all equally. It must aim to make everyone wholly dependent on it, to the last man, woman and child. When and what they eat, learn, hear, say, when and how they sit or lie or walk, speak, laugh, cry or feel or think anything at all it must be, and they must know it to be, as the state ordains. Then and only then will they have been brought to that ease of soul which is the essence of true freedom: freedom from the uncertainty of decision, release into indubitable duty. Then and only then will they know that they are at all times fulfilling their purpose, which the state has set, and in the manner that the state lays down."
- Louie Zander, L: A Novel History
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L: A Novel History
By Jillian Becker
"L: A Novel History deserves to take its place among the great dystopias, The Trial, Brave New World, and 1984, alas the most salient literary genre of the last hundred years."
- Theodore Dalrymple, contributing editor, The City, Wall Street Journal contributor
"Penetrating as a study of a dictator's mind, it is also very witty. There are situations reminiscent of the British TV series Yes Prime Minister, but combined with the cruelty of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction."
- Dr. Josef Zaruba-Pfeffermann, Institute of Art History, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
A charismatic sociopath orchestrates a reign of tyranny in England during the 1980s. L: A Novel History, documents how distinguished art critic and political theorist, Louis Zander, or "L", uses art, artifice and ideology to enchant and captivate millions of English citizens. He then ups the stakes and slowly, with heart-pounding inevitability, turns his followers from democracy-loving citizens into willing participants in his collectivist dictatorship. This skillfully composed and well-researched novel could be a fictionalization of the Cloward-Piven strategy or Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Ms. Becker has written a page turner that unveils the step-by-step process by which one evil man seduces, perverts and then destroys an entire nation. "L" could be Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, or even the next Prime Minister or President. Read this book at your peril. In this age of charismatic leaders, the vulnerability of our society is all too real.
Ms. Becker was inspired to write this novel while researching her best selling, non-fiction work, Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Gang.
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 The William Baldwin Group
ISBN: 9780985809102
September 1, 2012
History, Literature & Fiction, Politics
Jillian Becker is an internationally best-selling author. Her award-winning non-fiction book, Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang was prominently reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Time Magazine and was Newsweek Europe's "Book of the Year".
L: A Novel History is the brain child of Ms. Becker's research for Hitler's Children.
Her other works of fiction include The Keep (a Penguin Modern Classic), The Virgins, and the Pushcart Prizewinning story, The Stench, all set in South Africa, where she was born. Other non-fiction titles include The PLO: The Rise and Fall of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Giving Up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath.
Mr. Becker has contributed articles to numerous newspapers and periodicals, including the Wall Street Journal, the Telegraph, Commentary, and The New Criterion, and has been interviewed world-wide on the subject of terrorism on TV and radio, including BBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CBC. She serves on the council of The Freedom Association and is editor-in-chief of the blog The Atheist Conservative.
She resides in California.
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